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PREFACE. 

The following copies of official papers, letters and 
brief sketches of members of the Raymond family, 
are printed for private circulation, in order to pre- 
serve what little is known of their history. There are 
no doubt many others than those mentioned, who 
should be recognized in this pamphlet, but the writer 
has not been able to collect any information in regard 
to them. The descendants of John Raymond, the 
pioneer of the family in America, are scattered all 
over the western countr}^, and a general history or 
genealogy is not intended to be undertaken by this 
publication. 

The Raymonds for generatious, have been noted 
as a well-behaved, honest, law-abiding people, with a 
disposition to let ot*her persons attend to their own 
affairs, and possessed of a strong military instinct, as 
is shown by the fact, that, whenever in the histor}" of 
our country, the war trumpet has blown for soldiers, 
they have alwaj^s been among the first to respond to 
the stirring notes of the "Assembly," and to march 
promptly to the front. 

Members of the famih^ have taken part in the Co- 
lonial wars against the French and Indians com- 
mencing in 1755; the war of the Revolution of 1776; 
the Indian wars of the Virginia frontier ending in 
1795; the war of 18 12 with England; the war of the 
Texan Republic in 1835-6; the war with Mexico in 
1846-7; the great civil war of 1 861, in which nearly 



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every able bodied member participated on one side or 
the other; the Indian wars on the plains, following 
the civil war; the war with Spain in 1898, and the fol- 
lowing insurrection in the Phillipine Islands. 

In civil life, the}" have been members of Congress, 
Judges, members of State Constitutional Conven- 
tions and Legislatures, have held various county 
offices, officers of banks and other public institutions, 
and have been faithful to their duties, and to the 
trusts confided to them. 

Henry Raymond. 
Clarksburg, West Virginia. 
March 1903. 






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PART FIRST: 

John Haymoxd. 

John Haymond emigrated from England to the 
colony of j\Iar\'land prior to the 3'ear 1734, as he had 
lands patented to him in that year. It is a family 
tradition that he came to America for the purpose of 
building a fine house for a Mar34and planter and 
that he was selected for that purpose on account of 
his being an expert house joiner. After completing 
his contract, he was pleased with the countr}', and 
concluded to remain permanently. 

He located on a large tract of land, called Con- 
stant Friendship, in what was then Prince George's 
County, subsequenth' in Frederick, and now in Mont- 
gomery, near the present town of Rockville. 

It is noi known whether he married in England, or 
after he came to Mar3'land. His wife's name was 
Margaret. 

At the date of his will, September 27, 1750, he had 
six living children, as he names that number in his 
will. Their names were Nicholas, Calder, William, 
Hannah, Ann and Mar3\ 

The names of the three sons are given in the order 
of their ages. The ages of the daughters are not 
known. 

Hannah at this time was the wife of Jonn Jones. 

Ann and Mary, the other two daughters, subse- 
quentl}' married, according to family tradition, one of 
them to a Kenton, a brother of Simon Kenton, the 
Indian scout, who moved to Ohio, and the other to a 
Jarbo, or a Kelly. 



Nicholas, the elder son, died in 1767, leaving two 
children, a son John and a daughter, Kaziah. Noth- 
ing is known of the subsequent history of these 
children. 

John Raymond must have been a man of indust- 
rious habits, and good business judgment, as is shown 
by his landed estates and by his owning a large num- 
ber of slaves. 

He was probably engaged in raising tobacco, as 
that product was the. principal article of export from 
the Colonies to England, and it was only fourteen 
miles from his plantation to Georgetown, which at 
that time was a large shipping port, sea-going vessels 
loading there direct for foreign ports. 

In his will John Raymond displays a deep religious 
feeling, and a great affection for his family. Re was 
most likely a communicant in the Church of England. 

He signs his will in a large bold hand, indicating 
that he was a man of some education. 

He died between the 27th September, the date of 
his will, and the 20th, October, 1750, the day it was 
admitted to probate. 

JOHN HAYMOND's will. 

"In the name of God, Amen. I John Raymond, of 
Frederick County, Carpenter, being in good health 
of Body & of sound mind & perfect mind & memory, 
praise be therefore given to Almighty God, do make 
and ordain this my last will and testament in manner 
and form following, that is to say. First. 

' 'First and principally, I recommend my soul into 
the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the 
merits. Death and passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ, 
to have full pardon & forgiveness of all my sins & in- 



herit everlasting life, and my body I commit to the 
Earth to be decently hurried &C. 

"First Item. I give and bequeath unto my well- 
beloved wife Margaret Raymond, a tract of land 
called the Constant Friendship, with the Plantation 
that I now live on, the tract of land containing one 
hundred and fifty acres, during her natural life, then 
the said Plantation & land to be my dear son Wil- 
liam Haymond, forever. 

"Item. I give and bequeath unto my well-be- 
loved wife, Margaret Haymond, a negro man named 
Sam, and also a negro man Cesar, and also a negro 
woman, named Jenny & also a negro woman named 
Poll, and also a negro Girl named Nell & and also a 
negro Girl named Fillas and also a negro Girl named 
Lucy & also a negro girl named Cate, & also a negro 
boy named Robin, & also a negro bo}" named Samp- 
son & also a negro girl named Sail Sz also a negro 
Girl named Dyner. Ye, said negroes my well-be- 
loved wife, to enjoy during her natural life, then the 
said negroes, to be divided between my children, my 
dear son Nicholas Haymond to have negro Poll & 
also a negro boy named Robin forever. My dear 
son Calder Haymond to have a negro man named 
Sam, and a negro woman named Jenny & a negro girl 
named Dyner, forever. My dear daughter Hannah, 
to have a negro man named Cesar and a negro girl 
named Lucy, & a negro girl named Alice forever. My 
dear son William Haymond, to have a negro bo}" named 
Sampson, & a negro girl named Cate & a negro girl 
named Sail forever. My dear daughter Ann Hay- 
mond to have a negro girl named Fillis and a negro 
girl, Nell, forever. 

"Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear son, 
Nicholas Haymond, all that tract of land called Con- 
stant Friendship, containing one hundred and fifty 
acres, being the other part of the tract of land, that 
I now live on, to be the said Nicholas Haymond and 



his heirs forever, as soon as the said tract of land is 
made over b}' Mr. Thomas Lucas and wife, which 
land is now in the prosecion of will the said Thomas 
Lucas' wife is at age, to make the land over, and 
also I give m}^ dear son Nicholas Haymond a negro 
man named Will forever. 

' 'Item. I give and bequeath to my dear daughter 
Mary Haymond a negro boy named Nacy and one 
negro girl named Candeth. 

"Item. I give and bequeath a negro girl named 
Alice to my dear daughter Hannah Jones forever, the 
said negro is now in the possession of her husband, 
John Jones. 

"Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear son 
Calder Ha3nTiond, part of that tract of land, called 
"Flaymonds Addition," beginning at the end of the 
first line of Constant Friendship, forever. Calder to 
have that part that lies next my own Plantation, and 
to go with the main Road by Lawrence Owens and 
to the Church Road. 

' 'And my dear daughter Ann Haymond to have the 
other part that lies above Mr. Lawrence Owens, next 
to Mr. Alexander Barricks, running right up to the 
main road, to join with Mr. Owens line. 

"Item. Igive and bequeath unto my dear and well 
beloved wife, all my household goods, and all ye stock 
of everything, Cattle, Sheep, Horses and Hoggs, dur- 
ing her natural life, and then the stock and house- 
hold goods to be divided alike between my dear sons, 
Nicholas, and Calder and William and Ann Hay- 
mond. 

"Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear and well 
beloved wife, the House called the Mill House, dur- 
ing her natural life, and then the said House to be 
for the use of my dear sons Nicholas Ha3'^mond, 
Calder Haymond and William Haymond during their 



lives and their heirs forever, and each son to have as 
good a part as the other. 

"John Havmoxd, [seal.]" 
Semptr. 27, 17^0. 

Test: ^ • 

John Rawlins, 
Robert Ennis, 

His 

William X O'Neal. 

Mark. 

October 20th, 1750, John RawHns and Wilham 
O'Neal subscribing witnesses to the within will, being 
duly sworn on the Hol}^ Evangelist of Almighty God, 
depose and sa3^ that they saw the Testator John 
Raymond sign the within will, and heard him publish 
and declare the same to be his last will and Testa- 
ment, and at the time of his so doing, he was to the 
best of their apprehension of sound disposing mind 
and memory, and they further declare that they saw 
the within named Robert Ennis, subscribe his name 
as an evidence to the within will. 
Sworn before 

John Darnall, 
Depty. Comy. Fred. Ct3\ 

State of Maryland, Frederick County, to-icit : 

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of 
the last will and testament of John Raymond, late of 
Frederick County; deceased as filled in the office of 
the Register of Wills for Frederick County and duly 
recorded in Liber A, No. i. Folio 40, one of the will 
records in said office as afforesaid. 

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe m}^ name 
and affix the seal of the Orphans Court of said County 
this 3d day of August A. D., 1895. 
Test: 

James K. Waters, 
Register of Wills. 



PART SECOND. 

CaMer Haymond, son of John, was born in Mary- 
land about the year 1734; the given name of his first 
wife was Eleanor. It is supposed that he moved to 
the valley of the Monongahelia, in the year 1773, 
then known as the District of West Augusta, Virginia. 

The land records show that he, in that year, entered 
400 acres on the waters of the Little Kanawha River, 
afterwards in Monongalia County. He probably did 
not live on this tract, but ior a very short time if at all. 

The Commissioners for unpatented lands in 1781, 
issued him a certificate for 400 acres of land in Monon- 
galia County, as the assignee of Thomas Phillips, who 
had settled on it in the year 1 773. This land is located 
on the Monongahela river, about three miles below 
where Fairmont now stands, and was the home of 
Calder for many years. He probably moved on to 
it shortly after Phillips had acquired title to it. 
Bishop Francis Asbury, of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church speaks of staying one night at his home in 
July, 1788. About the year 1S12 he joined his son 
John who had moved to Western Ohio two years 
before. They subsequently moved to Indiana, where 
many of his descendants now live. 

Calder Haymond was twice married, and it is 
known that he had three sons, Thomas, Edward and 
John. One of his daughters married a man by the 
name of Hall and another a Holt. He probably had 
other children, but the writer has no knowledge of 
them. He died about the year 181 7. 



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The records of the Commissioners for adjusting the 
claims to unpatented lands on the Western waters for 
the county of Monongalia, Virginia, show that the 
following certificates were issued in the year 1781: 

"Calder Raymond, assignee to Thomas Phillips, is 
entitled to four hundred acres of land in Monongalia 
County, adjoining Monongahela River and the lands 
of Jacob Pritchard, to include his settlement made in 

Edward, the son of Calder Raymond, was born in 
1755, and enlisted from Monongalia county, Virginia, 
in a Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Lieuten- 
ant Colonel Bayard, probably the 9th Infantry, 
August 26th, 1776, for the term of three years. The 
regiment served most, if not all, its term along the 
line of the Allegheny River. 

In 1777, a detachment of the Regiment was per- 
mitted to join General Daniel Morgan's Rifle Corps, 
Edward being among them. They marched east of 
the mountains, and took part in the battle of Saratoga, 
which resulted in the surrender of the British General 
Burgoyne and his army. 

Edward took part in the battle of INIonmouth and 
in other battles and campaigns. 

His captain was John Wilson, and he always referred 
to Edward as one of his best soldiers. In one of 
the battles in which he took part he used his musket 
so often that he was compelled to clean it out five 
times during the course of the engagement. 

Re applied for a pension November 23rd, 1818, 
and was placed on the pension roll. Some of his 
descendants still reside in West Virginia. 



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After his discharge from the Pennsylvania Regi- 
ment he must have re-enhsted in some other organ- 
ization, as he has said that he served five years dur- 
ing the war. 

Lewis Ha3^mond who was Hving in Grafton, West 
Va.; in 1890, saj^s that his grandfather Edward moved 
to the West prior to 1820, with all his family except 
one son named John, who remained in Monongalia 
count}^ now Taj^or, and his descendants reside there 
still. 

The names of Edward's children are given as 
Elijah, Thomas, William, Calder, John and Edward. 
His three daughters married Robinson, Evans and 
Fletcher, and all went west with their father. Lewis 
further says that Edward, while en a visit to his old 
home in Virginia, was taken sick and died in 1824. 

Thomas, son of Calder Raymond, in 1777, served 
in a compan}^ of Virginia Militia, comimanded by his 
Uncle, Captain William Raymond, called into active 
service against the Indians. In 1781 he joined a 
company commanded by Captain Ferrel, to take 
part in the expedition of Col. George Rogers Clark 
against the British posts in the W^est. Thomas 
afterwards became a Minister in the Methodist Epis- 
copal church, and died while stationed on the East- 
ern Shore of Maryland. 

Thomas L. Raymond, a great grandson of Cal- 
der, and a native- of Rush County, Indiana, at the 
commencement of the civil war was among the first 
in his neighborhood to volunteer, and was assigned 
to Company K, i8th Indiana Infantry. Re was pro- 
moted for good conduct to First Lieutenant and Ad- 



jutant of his regiment and served on the staff of Gen. 
H. D. Washburn at the seige of Vicksburg and in 
the operations in that vicinity. 

He served in the battles named below: 

Rich Mountain, W. Va., Black Water, Mo., Su- 
gar Creek, Ark., Pea Ridge, Ark., Cotton Plant, 
Ark., Port Gibson, Ark., Champion Hills, Miss., 
Jackson (ist), Miss., Big Black, Miss., Vicksburg, 
J\liss., Jackson (2d), Miss., Mustang Island, Texas, 
Fort Esperanza, Texas, Austin, Texas, Batton 
Rouge, La., Carion Crew Ba\^ou, La., Atchafala^^a, 
La., Berry ville, Va., Halltown, Va. , Opequon, Va., 
Winchester, Va. , Fisher's Hill, Va. , New Market, 
\'a. , and Cedar Creek, \"a. 

In civil life he has been a teacher, and for many 
3'ears served in the Postal and U. S. Internal Reven- 
ue Service. He lives at Waldron, Indiana. 

J. W. Haymond, a brother of William C. above 
mentioned, was first in a cavalr}^ company, and after- 
wards a First Lieutenant in the -i-Sth Indiana Infan- 
try, and served through the war in the Army of the 
Cumberland. 

In civil life he has been an editor and lawyer. 

William W. Haymond, brother of the last two 
above named, and served in the civil war as a mem- 
ber of the 3d Indiana Cavalr3^ His colonel, in a 
letter to his family, written after his death, highly 
commends him as a faithful and gallant soldier, and 
one well fitted to command. 

George L. Ha^Mnond, a brother of the three last 
above named, was on dut}^ with the 27th Indiana 
Infantry, and took part in the long chase after Gen. 



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John Morgan, when he made his celebrared raid 
through Indiana and. Ohio in 1863. 

Alfred H. Raymond was for many years a promi- 
nent man in Indiana, and for a long time was post- 
master in Waldron. He was a grandson of Calder. 

William Calder Raymond, son of William and 
grandson of Edward, enlisted in Compan}^ K 127th 
Illinois infantry on August 14th, 1862, and was 
attached to the ist Brigade 2d Division, 15th Arm}^ 
Corps, and took part in the following named cam- 
paigns and battles: 

Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., 1862; Arksansas Post, 
Ark., 1862; Deer Creek, Miss.; Black Bayou Ex- 
pedition, Siege of Vicksburg; Jackson, Miss.; Col- 
liersville, Tenn., Lookout Mountain, Missionary 
Ridge, Meridian, Miss., 1864; Resaca, Ga. , Dallas, 
Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, 
Sherman's March to the Sea, Columbia, South Car- 
olina, 1865; Fa3^etville, North Carolina; Bentonville, 
Raleigh, General Joseph Johnston's surrender; took 
part in the Grand Review in Washington May 24, 
1865; Was honorably discharged at Washington in 
May, 1865. Was captured at Atlanta July 22, 1864, 
and confined in Andersonville prison for fifty-nine 
da3^s and was then exchanged. Re lives at Francis- 
ville, Indiana. 

John W. Raymond, a brother of William C, 
served during the civil war, in Company D, 91st 
Illinois Inlantr3^ He lives at Ashville, North Caro- 
lina. 



PART THIRD. 

William Haymond, son of John, was born on the 4th 
day of Januar}' O. S., 1740, and passed his early life 
on his father's planation, called Constant Friendship, 
now in Montgomery county, Maryland, having pre- 
viousl}^ been in Prince George's and Fredcirick counties. 

According to family tradition, he accompanied the 
army of General Edward Braddock on its march to 
capture Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg) from the 
French, and which met with a disastrous defeat on 
the Monongahela River on the 9th of July, 1755. 

At this time he was only fifteen years of age, and 
it is not known in what capacity he was employed, 
but likely in the quartermaster's department. 

In the year 1758, he was a soldier in the expedi- 
tion, commanded by General Forbes, against the 
same position, which was successful, and the name 
was changed to Fort Pitt after the English prime 
minister. 

In Februar3% 1759. he enlisted in the Virginia regi- 
ment, commanded b}' Col. George Washington, which 
had been detailed to garrison the country captured 
from the French. He served along the Monongahela 
and Alleghen}^ rivers and as far north as "Presque 
Isles," now Erie, on the lake of that name. When 
the regiment was withdrawn from the west, it was 
marched up the Shenandqah Valley, and on to the 
Holstein river to suppress an outbreak among the 
Cherokee Indians. 

When the Cherokees were quieted, the regiment 
returned to the valley and was discharged. William's 



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discharge is dated at Fort Lewis (near Staunton, Va.) 
Feb. 24th, 1762, and states that "he has duly served 
three years, and behaved as a good soldier and faith- 
ful subject." 

After he returned home from the wars, he, in the 
following year, April 19th, 1763, was married to Cas- 
sandra Clelland, and settled down to the life of a 
planter. 

In May, 1773, he sold his farm to James Sutter for 
the sum of two hundred and twelve pounds and ten 
shillings current money of the province, and moved 
with his family, consisting of his wife, four children 
and a number of negroes, to the District of West 
Augusta, Virginia, and located on the Monongahela 
river near where Morgantown now stands. 

The country was a howling wilderness, but thinly 
settled, and the few inhabitants for twenty years 
were destined to endure not onl}' the privations inci- 
dent to a frontier life, but the horrors of a savage war- 
fare. 

It is not known that the new emigrant to the coun- 
try west of the mountains, held any official position 
for several years after his arrival; he engaged in farm- 
ing to some extent, and at one time raised a crop of 
corn where Morgantown now stands. 

His negroes took some disease and died one by one. 
It is said they were conjured. The privations and 
terrors of the wilderness, with its savage beasts and 
still more savage men, were prob^^bly too much for 
them, and the}' longed for the tobacco fields of Mary- 
land, lost heart and easil}' succumbed to any disease 
of a serious nature. 



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upon the formation of Monongalia count3% in 1 776, 
he served in various important positions, such as Jus- 
tice of the Peace, Deputy Surveyor, Coroner and 
Sheriff. 

At the commencement of the Revolution, he at 
once warmly advocated the cause of the colonies and 
was appointed a captain of milita, and was frequently 
in active service against the hostile Indians. In 1777 
he was in command of Prickett's Fort with a detach- 
ment at Scott's Mills. In 1781 he was promoted to 
Major, and performed the duties of an officer of 
militia during the whole of the Revolutionar\^ war. 

He was making preparations to go east of the 
mountains and join the arm}" there, when news of 
peace was received. 

He was one of the officials selected to administer 
the oath of allegiance in the Commonwealth of Vir- 
ginia, to all male inhabitants over the age of sixteen 
years, and requiring them to renounce and refuse all 
allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain. 

He was one of the commissioners appointed for 
adjusting the claims to unpatented lands in the coun- 
ties of Monongalia, Yohogania and Ohio. 

Upon the creation of Harrison count}^ in 1784, 
Major Haymond was appointed the principal surveyor 
of the new county. He traveled on horseback across 
the mountains to Williamsburg in order to be examined 
b}^ the professors of William and Mary's College, as 
to his qualifications for the position. He passed a 
successful examination and was duly commissioned 
Surveyor by the Governor of Virginia. 



This appointment required another change of resi- 
dence to Clarksburg, about forty miles west ot Mor- 
gantown. So in the fall of that year he moved to 
that place, purchased a few acres of land near town, 
built an office, and entered upon the discharge of his 
duties. At that time Harrison county extended from 
the Allegheny mountains to the Ohio, and the duties 
of the office were of a most important character, 
affecting the titles to the homes of the settlers who 
came pouring in rapidly, after the close of the war of 
the Revolution. 

He was a member of the commission to build two 
courthouses in Harrison county in 1787 and 181 2, and 
as a surveyor assisted in marking out a State road 
from the Valley river to the Ohio, near Marietta, and 
was always prominent in public affairs. 

In 1 79 1 he purchased a tract of land containing 
194^ acres on Elk creek, six miles from Clarksburg, 
and moved on it in the fall of that year. The house 
in which he lived is still standing, and is still used as 
a residence. The farm is now (1903) owned by 
Sidney Haymond, the grandson of William, and has 
descended from father to son by will, no deed having 
been made for it since its purchase as above stated. 

He was a man of few words and not disposed to 
talk of his services as a soldier, and his children 
seemed not to have asked him many questions about 
his life and adventures. One anecdote he told On 
himself is, that when on the march to Fort Duquesne 
having found a piece of old iron weighing several 
pounds, he slipped it into the knapsack of a comrade. 
He heard nothing moie of it, until the day the army 



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reached the fort, when on unslinging his knapsack^ 
he found the same iron in it. It had been passed 
from one soldier to another until it got back to where 
it started from. 

He was a skilled mechanic, a mathematician of rare 
ability, a thoroughly competent surveyor and was 
widely respected for his sterling integrit3\ 

He was a man of great natural ability, was modest 
and unassuming, was not ambitious to advance his 
interests either in public affairs or in the accumulation 
of wealth. In the conduct of his office, from his 
knowledge of the country, he had the opportunit}^ to 
acquire a large landed estate, but he did not avail 
himself of it, but was content with his lot. 

It can be said of him that he was a faithful soldier 
for his king, an ardent patriot during the Revolution, 
an honest public official, a good citizen and in the 
private w^.lks of life and the esteem of the community 
in which he lived, he was without reproach. 

Major Haymond held the position of principal 
surveyor for thirty-seven 3^ears, and died at his home 
on November 12th, 1821, and was buried in the Hay- 
mond graveyard, in sight of his former residence. 

William Haymond, son of John and Margaret, was 
born near Rockville, Maryland, then Prince George's 
County, January 4th, O. S. 1740. 

Cassandra Clelland was born October 25, 1741. 

William Haymond and Cassandra Clelland were 
married April 19, 1763, 

Cassandra died at Clarksburg, Virginia, December 

23, 1788- 

William married, as his second wife, Mary Powers, 
widow, nee Pettyjohn, December, 29, 1789. 



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William died at his home on Zack's run, Harrison 
county, Virginia, November 12, 1821. 

Mary died at the home of her late husband, March 
20, 1830, in the seventy-third year of her age. 



CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND CASSANDRA RAYMOND. 

William, born'jMa}^ 14, 1764, Monday morning at 
7 o'clock, died of the flux, September 17, 1769. 

John, born December 7, 1765, Saturday morning 
at 2 o'clock.' Married Mary Wilson, July 3, 1787. 

Ann, born August 3, 1767, Monday morning at 
2 o'clock. Married Thomas Douglass, May 10, 1787, 
and after his death married Dr. Isaac Miller Johnson. 

Margaret, born September 6, 1769, Wednesday 
night at 1 1 o'clock. Married Jacob Polsle^^ Ma}^ 
31. 1791. 

' William, born June 11, 1771, Tuesda}^ morning at 
o'clock. Married Cynthia Carroll, March 12, 1793.. 

Elizabeth, born on Easter Sunday, April 11, 1773, 
at 10 o'clock at night. Died June 30, 1773- 

Walter, born May 30, 1774, Monday morning at 

4 o'clock. Died November 16, 1774. 

Thomas, born Januar}' 11, 1776, Thursday morn- 
ing at 2 o'clock, in the Monongahela Glades, now 
Monongalia CounL3% West Virginia. Married Re- 
becca Bond, January 6, 1803. 

Sarah, born January 24, 1778, Saturday evening at 

5 o'clock. Married Allison Clark, Januar}' 3, 1796, 
and Thomas Bond, November 21, 181 3. 

Susannah, born June — , 1780, Tuesday afternoon 
at I o'clock. Married Robert Bartlett, Januar}^ 12, 
1797, and moved to Missouri, near New Madrid. 

A son born Februar}^ 22, 1783, Saturday morning 
at 2 o'clock. Died 29th of same month. 



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Rowena, born June 17, 1784, Thursday evening at 
1 1 o'clock. Married Daniel Davisson, March 30, 
1802. Died Feb. 26; 1810. 

Daniel, born April 28, 1787, Saturday morning at 
5 o'clock. Married Mary Ann Bond, and three 
others. 

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND MARY RAYMOND. 

Cyrus, born September 8, 1790, at 43 minutes 
after 5 o'clock in the morning. Married Jane Som- 
merville, April 18, 1822, and Polly Carpenter,/^. / 7 /^' 

Ruth, born November 20, 1792. Married Joshua 
Nixon, September 24, 181 1. Moved to Illinois. 

Maxa, born March 14, 1795, at 8 o'clock in the 
morning. Married Robert Robinson, August 8th, 
1 8 16. Moved to Illinois. 

Julia, born July 28th, 1799, Sunday morning at 7 
o'clock. Died of flux June 30th, 1801. 

A daughter born July 30th, 1804, and died the 
same day 

Thomas Ha3^mond, son of William, was born in 
the Monongahela glades. West Augusta, now Mon- 
ongalia County, January nth, 1776, and died in 
Harrison County August 31, 1853. 

Rebecca Bond, daughter of Richard, was born in 
Cecil County, Maryland, February i6th, 1780, and 
died in Harrison County, W. Va., April 2, 1869. 

Thomas Haymond^and Rebecca Bond were mar- 
ried in Harrison County, W. Va., January 6, 1803. 



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CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND REBECCA. 

Rufus born June 5, 1805, Died 1886. 

Rowenna born September i, 1807, Died Septem- 
ber 10, 1856. 

Luther born February 23, 1809. 

Rudolph born July 27, I811, Died August 27, 182 1. 

Lewis born November 27, 1813. Died June 26, 
1847. 

Cassandra born August 21, 18 16. Died August 



v5' 



I82I, 



John Raymond, the son of William, was born in 
Maryland, and was eight years old when he came to 
Northwestern Virginia with his father. 

He was clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Ran- 
dolph Academy, deputy surveyor, sheriff and mem- 
ber of the Legislature of Harrison county, member of 
the State Senate, an officer of the militia and took 
part in the Indian wars, and was in many expeditions 
against them. After the Indian troubles were over, 
he removed to ^fK--j:iver in what is now Braxton 
county, where he engaged in the manufacture of salt. 
He was a man of great natural ability, was active and 
energetic in his undertakings, and was from a very 
young man prominent in public affairs. At one time 
in a skirmish with the Indians a bullet passed through 
a handkerchief which he had tied around his head. 

William Haymond, Jr., the son of William, served 
as a scout in the Indian wars, and took part in the 
skirmish with a party of Indian raiders on Middle 
Island Creek, now in Doddridge county. He was a 
deputy surveyor of Harrison county. 

^1^ ^^^z^^ y^y J^ If Xi /t:!-, ^ ^ . 'jt . 



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In 1794 he moved to a tract of land on which is 
now situated the town of Palatine, now in Marion 
county, where he lived until his death. He wrote the 
letters published in this pamphlet. 

Thomas Raymond, the son of William, was a 
scout during the latter part of the Indian troubles, 
when less than twenty years of age. He was deputy 
surve^^or of Harrison county for many years and was 
principal surve3'or for thirt3^-two years, was commis- 
sioner of delinquent and forfeited lands, a competent 
surveyor and in the discharge of his many public and 
official duties his integrity was above approach, and 
no one stood higher, or had the confidence of the 
people more than he. 

Daniel Haymond, the son of William, engaged for 
many years in stock raising, took an active part on 
the side of the Union at the commencement of the 
civil war, was a member of the Senate of West Vir- 
ginia, and was a- candidate for Congress and was 
nearly successful. 

Cyrus Haj^mond, the son of William, was born and 
lived all his life on the home place, engaged in farm- 
ing. He was a soldier in the war against England in 
18 1 2, serving on the lakes. He was deputy surveyor 
of Harrison count3% and principal surveyor for seven- 
teen years. 

Thomas S. Haymond, grandson of William, was a 
soldier in the war of 1812 against England, a mem- 
ber of the Legislature and a member of Congress 
from Virginia. 

Augustus Ha3^mond, a grandson of Wi'li^m, was a 
merchant in Morgantown, and held the positions of 



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justice of the peace, presiding justice of the count}^ 
court, and clerk of the circuit court of MonongaHa 
county. 

Luther Haymond, a son of Thomas and grandson 
of WilHam, was born in Harrison county Februar}^ 
23, 1809, 3-nd resides in Clarksburg. He has held 
the following official positions: Deputy surveyor, 
member of the Legislature of Virginia, civil engineer 
of the Board of Public Works of Virginia and was 
employed in surveying turnpikes and other public 
improvements in Western Virginia. Commissioner 
of the Circuit Court, treasurer of the county, cashier 
of the Merchants' National Bank at Clarksburg from 
i860 until his retirement in 1896. He was engaged 
in surveying for man\^ \'ears and has been a large 
dealer in real estate. His long and useful life, now 
prolonged be3^ond four score 3^ears and ten, has been 
one of loyalty to his duties, and of unselfish devotion 
to his family and friends, and in its morality, purity 
of character and integrity, stands without reproach. 
No one amid the green hills or by the babbling brooks 
of West A'irginia, has ever held a higher place than 
he in the confidence and affections of his fellow men. 

Jonathan Haj^mond, a grandson of William, was a 
merchant in Fairmont, Va. , and activeh" engaged in 
many business enterprises, was a quartermaster in 
the Confederate arm}^ removed to Texas after the 
war, and was employed in shipping lumber to Central 
America; was endowed with an unusual amount of 
energy. 

Benjaimin W. Ha3^mond. a son of Jonathan, served 
in the Confederate arm3^ and died in Nicarauga, where 
he was engaged in the fruit business. 



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John Alderson, a great grandson of William, is a 
resident of Nicholas county, W. Va. , is a practicing 
attorney and has been a member of the Legislature 
and prominent in public affairs; was a member of 
Congress for several years from West Virginia, and 
has the confidence of his people. 

Edgar Raymond, a native of Braxton count3^ W. 
Va. , a great grandson of William, was a soldier in 
the Mexican war and died shortly after his return 
home from a disease contracted in the service. 

Alfred Raymond, a brother of the last named Edgar, 
was also a soldier in the Mexican war and died in the 
service while serving in that country. 

W.S.Raymond, a grandson of Wm.,son of Cyrus, 
was a physician, practiced in White count3^ Indiana, 
was a professor in a medical college in Indianapolis, and 
a member of Congress from Indiana, and served as a 
surgeon in an Indiana regiment during the civil war. 

Alpheus F. Raymond, a great grandson of William, 
was an attorney-at-law, and held the ofhce of prose- 
cuting attorney" for Marion county, a member of the 
Virginia Convention in 1861, and an officer of the 
Confederate army, member of the Legislature of 
West Virginia, Judge of the Circuit Court, and Judge 
of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. 
Re was a man of great ability, a public speaker of 
renown, a profound lawyer and one whose decisions 
handed down from the bench are referred to by the 
bar as precedence worthy of confidence. 

Daniel Polsley, a grandson of William, was a mem- 
ber of the Wheeling convention of June iith, 1861, 
which reorganized the government of Virginia, and 



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was elected lieutenant governor of said State by the 
convention. He was afterwards Judge of the Circuit 
Court and a member of Congress from West Virginia. 

Hiram Ha3'mond, a grandson of William, was long 
a merchant in Fairmont, took an active part in the 
formation of the State of West Virginia, and was a 
member of the convention that framed its first con- 
stitution. 

Dr. Rufus Haymond, son of Thomas and grandson 
of William, was born in Harrison count3^ Virginia, in 
1805, studied medicine under Dr. Williams, of Clarks- 
burg, and located in Brookville, Indiana, in the year 
1832 and for fifty 3^ears practiced his profession in the 
White Water valley. He was a close student of 
natural history, and took an intelligent interest in 
scientific matters, and had a large correspondence 
with learned men on kindred subjects. He was ap- 
pointed by the State of Indiana to make a geological 
survey of Franklin count}\ His report was published 
in pamphlet form and shows a thorough knowledge 
of the subject. Dr. Ha3^mond served as a member 
of the Legislature of Indiana, and held other positions 
of trust, and always had the esteem and respect of 
his people, among whom he had a wide and exten- 
sive acquaintance. He died in 1886. 

Hadle3^ Douglass Johnson was the son of Ann Hay- 
mond and grandson of William, and was born at 
Brookville, Indiana, Sept. i, 181 2. When quite 
young his father, Dr. Isaac Miller Johnson, removed 
to near St. Charles, Missouri but his mother dying 
soon, young Hadle3^ was returned to Brookville to 
live with his half sister, Mrs. Gallion, nee Douglass. 



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In 1834 he was married to Miss Eliza H. Wood- 
worth. In 1 85 1 he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
and was engaged in the practice of law, and was 
elected to the Iowa State Senate. In 1854 he moved 
to Nebraska and was elected by a squatter conven- 
tion to proceed to Washington to appear before Con- 
gress and urge the formation of the Territor}^ of 
Nebraska. Upon the formation of the territory he 
was a candidate for delegate to Congress, but owing 
to local differences was defeated by fifty votes. In 
1856 he was elected public printer. 

In 1859 or '60 Mr. Johnson went to Pike's Peak 
and engaged in the lumber business, and afterwards 
went to Boise, Idaho. 

In 1865 he returned to Omaha, and after remain- 
ing several years located at Salt Lake City and 
engaged in newspaper work. 

In 1896 he was a Presidential elector and was 
deputized by the Electoral College to carr}" the vote 
of Utah to Washington. 

Mr. Johnson, all of his life, took an active part in 
politics, and as a Democrat was prominent in organ- 
izing that party and advocating its principles in his 
several places of residence. He was a man of strong 
mind and determined will, and always had the respect 
and confidence of his communit}^ He died in Salt 
Lake City, July 12, 1898. 

William Haymond, a son of Daniel and grandson 
of Major William, was for many years a farmer in 
Ritchie county, W. Ya. He was a soldier in the 
army of the Texan Republic and took part in the 
campaign against Mexico, which resulted in establish- 
ing the independence of Texas. 



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William S. Haymond, of Fairmont, son of Alpheus, 
is an attorney, is also engaged in business enterprises 
and has held the position of judge of the intermediate 
court of Marion count}', W. Va. He is a descendant 
of the first William. As a boy he served as an orderly 
to commanding officers in the Confederate Army. 

Lee Haymond, a son of Luther and great grandson 
of William, was employed for thirty-five years in the 
Merchants' National Bank at Clarksburg, W. Va. , 
and at the time of his death in 1 899 was its cashier; was 
a member of the Board of Education and of the town 
council; served in the civil war as lieutenant and com- 
missar}^ of the 3d West Virginia Cavalry, and captain 
in the Commissary Department U. S. ; was brevetted 
Major for good conduct by the President. 

Henry Haymond, son of Luther and great grand- 
son of William, served as captain in the i8th U. S. 
Infantry during and for several years after the civil 
war. Took part in the campaigns of the army of the 
Cumberland, participating in the battles of Perry- 
ville, Ky. , siege of Corinth, Stone River, Hoover's 
Gap, Chickamauga, siege of Chattanooga, Missionary 
Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Ga., and other skirmishes 
and expeditions. Served in the west against the 
Sioux Indians in 1866 and 1868; was wounded at 
Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862. 

The President conferred on him the brevet rank of 
Major and Lieutenant Colonel for meritorious services 
during the war. 

In civil life he has been recorder of the town of 
Clarksburg. 

In 1884 he was appointed by the President a mem- 
ber of the Board of Visitors to the West Point Milit- 



ary Academy; President of the Board of Education, 
deputy collector of Internal Revenue, member of the 
Legislature, clerk of the Circuit Court of Harrison 
county, and Republican presidential elector in 1896, 
and was chairman of the Electoral College; resides 
in Clarksburg, W. Va. 

John Haymond.'a native of Braxton county, served 
through the civil war in the 3d West Virginia Infan- 
try and 6th West Virginia Cavalry; was wounded 
severely. His regiment served in the V/est in the 
Indian country, and was mustered out in 1866. He 
resides in Braxton county, and was a great grandson 
of William. 

Luther D. Ha3^mond, a brother of John last above 
named, was an attorney, served in the Confederate 
army as captain of infantry and was badly wounded. 
At the time of his death he lived at Liberty, Vir- 
ginia. 

Edgar R. Haymond, son of Dr. Rufus, of Brook- 
ville, Indiana, was engaged in mining in California 
for some years, studied law and located in Warsaw, 
Indiana; for some years was Judge of the Circuit 
Court of the Kosiusco circuit; resides at Warsaw. 

Leigh Hunt Haymond, a brother of Edgar R., 
served in the civil war in an Indiana regiment, and 
was an attorney at law; resided at Warsaw at the 
time of his death. 

Rufus Haymond, a great grandson of William, 
enlisted in 1862 in Company E 12th Regiment West 
Virginia Volunter Infantry, participated in the battles 
of Winchester, New Market, Piedmont, Snicker's 



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Ferry and L3mchburg, served in the Gett3'sburg 
campaign, but was not engaged in the battle. He 
was captured at Winchester July 28, 1864, and was 
confined in the Danville and Richmond prisons for 
seven months; promoted to first sergeant in 1864; 
lives in Harrison county, West Virgiuia; is a farmer; 
has held several county and district offices, and for 
six years was a member of the Board of Directors of 
the West Virginia Reform School. 

Sidney Haj'mond, a grandson of William, son of 
Cyrus, is a farmer, extensively engaged in the cattle 
business, and resides in Harrison count}', W. Va. ; has 
held the following official positions: Recorder of Har- 
rison count}^ county surveyor of the county, presid- 
ing officer of the County Court, member of the Leg- 
islature and member of the State Board of managers 
of the State's display at the World's Fair at Chicago 
in 1893. He was the last one of the name to hold 
the office of county surveyor, which was held by mem- 
bers of the family for ninety years. 

Creed Haymond, a great grandson of William, was 
a native of Fairmont, W. Va. , and when quite a 
youth, went to California and engaged in mining, 
studied law and became an attorney of national 
reputation, was a member of the California Senate, 
and a member of the committee to codify the laws of 
California. He died in San Francisco in 189- 

Edwin Maxwell, a great grandson of William, an 
attorney at law; was State's attorney of Doddridge 
count}^ W. Va,, a member of the State Senate and 
of the House of Delegates, and for many years was a 
member of the Supreme Court of Appeals; was a 



candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket in 
1884. He resided in Clarksburg at the time of his 
death (February, 1903). 

Edwin Maxwell, a son of the last above mentioned, 
a native of Clarksburg i nd now a resident of Seattle 
on the Pacific coast. 

Raymond Maxwell, a brother of Edwin, Jr., is a 
practicing attorney in Clarksburg. 

James Otis Watson, a descendant of William, a 
resident of Fairmont, was for many jxars prominent 
in business affairs and was the pioneer in the mining 
and shipping of coal from West Virginia. Mr. Wat- 
son was a member of the convention that met in 
Wheeling June iith, 1861, which established what is 
known as the Reorganized Government of Virginia, 
which finally resulted in the formation of the State 
of West Virginia. He was a man of marked ability, 
good judgment and had the respect and confidence 
of all who knew him. He died in Fairmont in 1902. 

Benjamin W. Byrne, a descendant of William, an 
attorney, served in the Virginia Legislature and was 
a delegate to the convention from Braxton county, 
which passed the Ordinance of Secession, and held 
the position of superintendent of public schools for 
the State of West Virginia. He resides in Charles- 
ton, W. Va. 

William E. Haymond, an attorney of Braxton 
county, has been prosecuting attorney of his county, 
and was a candidate for Congress in 1900. He is a 
descendant from William, and resides at Sutton. 



John H. Holt, descended from William, resides at 
Huntington, W. Va, , is prominent as an attorney, 
and was a candidate for Governor in 1900 on the 
Democratic ticket. 

Lewis Ha3^mond, grandson of William and son of 
Thomas, was a deputy surveyor of Harrison county, 
and a large owner of lands. He died at the home 
place in 1847. 

Hu Maxwell, a descendant of William and nephew 
of Judge Edwin Maxwell, has travelled extensively 
and has been engaged as a newspaper correspondent, 
and is the author of several county histories, aud is 
well and favorably known in the scientific and liter- 
ary world. He resides at Morgantown. 

Lewis Haymond, the younger, a great grandson of 
William and son of Luther, was an attorney in Dodd- 
ridge county, and died in 1880. 

Thomas, a brother of the above, is by occupation 
a bank clerk and resides in Clarksburg. 

Bruce Haymond, a brother of the above, is an 
artist of ability, and resides in Clarksburg. 

Thomas Wilson Haymond, a son of Rufus, the 
younger, is a student at the State University in Mor- 
gantown. He resides near Bristol in Harrison county. 

William Hay Lewis, a grandson of Luther, has 
been Town Clerk, a member of the Town Council, 
and is now Assistant Cashier of the Merchants Na- 
tional Bank of Clarksburg. 

Wirt Lewis, a brother of the above, is engaged in 
mercantile pursuits and resides in Clarksburg. 



34 

Dr. Looker Clark, a grandson of William, was for 
many years a practicing physician in Lafayette, 
Indiana, and served in the Senate of that State. He 
also held other positions of trust and responsibility. 

Dr. Raymond Clark, a brother of Looker, was a 
practicing physician in Noblesville, Indiana. 

Daniel Floyd Raymond, a great-grandson of Wil- 
liam, was Sheriff of Ritchie County, W. Va. , and 
was prominent in public affairs. 

Thomas Ra3^mond, a great-grandson of William, 
and son of Luther, is by occupation a bank clerk, and 
resides in Clarksburg. 

Bruce Raymond, brother of Thomas, above named, 
resides in Clarksburg; is an artist, 

Thomas Wilson Raymond resides with his father, 
Rufus Haymond, near Bristol, Rarrison County, 
W. Va. , and is a student at the West Virginia Uni- 
versity. 

W^illiam R. Lewis, a grandson of Luther, resides 
in Clarksburg. Ras been City Recorder, member of 
the City Councils, and is teller in the Merchants 
National Bank. 

Wirt Lewis, a brother of William R., last above 
mentioned, resides in Clarksburg, and is engaged in 
mercantile pursuits. 

Luther Raymond, Junior, a son of Lee Raymond, 
was a hospital Steward in the Second West Virginia 
Volunteer Infantr}^ during the Spanish War. Is a 
medical student and resides in Clarksburg. 

George Raymond Moore, a grandson of Doctor 
Rufus Raymond, of Brookville, Indiana, resides in 
Clarksburg, and is a stenographer and law student. 



35 

Charles W. Moore, brother of George, is a practic- 
ing attorney in Clarksburg. 

Edgar R. Moore, a brother of the last named, is a 
resident of Clarksburg, and is engaged in the mer- 
cantile business. 



PART FOURTH. 

DOCUMENTS, ETC. 

By Colonel Adam Stephen, 

Commander of the Virginia Regiment. 

These are to certify, that William Raymond, Ser- 
geant in Colonel's Byrd's Company, is hereby Dis- 
charged According to an Act of Assembly made for 
that Purpose, He has duly served Three 3^ears and 
Behaved as a good Soldier and Faithful subject. 

Given under my hand at Fort Lewis, this 24 day 
of February, 1762. 

Adam Stephen, 
Colon: V. R. 

At the request of James Suter, the following Deed 
was recorded the 9th May, 1773, To wit: 

This Indenture, made the third day of April, Anno 
Domini One Thousand seven hundred and Seventy 
three. Between Wm: Haymond of Fredk, County in 
the provence of Maryd, Joiner, of the one part and 
James Suter of the County, and provence aforesaid, 
Taylor, of the other part: Witnesseth: That the said 
Wm. Haymond for and in consideration of the sum 
of two hundred and twelve pounds, ten shillings, cur- 
rent money of the provence, assd. to him, in hand 
paid, before the ensealing and Delivery of these pres- 
ents, the receipt whereof the said Wm Haymond, 
doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and every part 
thereof, doth discharge and acquit the said James 
Suter, his heirs Exrs. and Adm. and every of them. 
Hath given, granted, bargained, sold and confirmed, 
and by these presents doth Give, Grant, Bargain, 
sell and Confirm unto the said James Suter, his heirs 
and assigns, part of a tract or parcel of land, called 



37 

Constant Friendship, formerl}' in Prince George's 
county, but now in Fredk county aforesaid. Begin- 
ning at the end of the Two hundred and tenth perch 
of the first hne of the said tract or parcel of land, run- 
ning thence North fifty ps. : North seventy Degs. 
East forty-eight ps; North thirty-five degs. East one 
hundred ps. ; South eighty degs, East seventy pers. ; 
South forty Ds. ; East eighty ps. ; South thirty-three 
Ds. ; West sixty ps. ; South fifty-six Ds. , West one 
hundred and four ps. , thence with a straight line to 
the beginning. Containing, and now laid out for one 
hundred and fifty acres of land more or less, with all 
and singular the appurtenances & advantages there- 
unto belonging, To have and to hold the said parcel 
of land, and premises with the appurtenances unto 
the said James Suter, his heirs and assigns forever, 
and to his and their proper use and behoof. And 
the said Wm. Raymond for himself his heirs Exs. 
and Adms: Doth by these presents Covenant, prom- 
ise. Grant and agree to and with the said Jas: Suter 
his heirs and assigns in manner and form following, 
that is to say, that he the said James Suter, his heirs 
and assigns forever hereafter shall and may jointly 
and peaceably, have hold, possess and enjoy the 
aforesaid parcel of land and premises with the appur- 
tenances free clear and freely and Clearly Acquitted 
and Discharged from all incumbrances whatsoever, 
except the rents, which shall hereafter grow due to 
the land Lord prop u y; and further that the afore- 
said parcel of Land was aforesaid described to lye 
within the bounds and lines above mentioned, and 
hereby Bargd, and sold or hereby intended to be 
hereby bargained and sold, does contain, one hun- 
dred and fifty acres of land, and that he the said 
Wm. Raymond his heirs Exrs; and Adms. the afore- 
said one hundred and fifty acres of Land and prem- 
ises, with the appurtenances, unto him the said James 
Suter his heirs and assigns forever, shall and will by 



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these presents forever warrant and defend, against 
all persons and claims whatsoever. Lastly that the 
said Wm. Raymond, his heirs and assigns shall and 
will at any time hereafter make and execute, and 
acknowledge any other Deed or writing, for the more 
sure making over, and confirming the assr; one hun- 
dred and fifty acres of land and premises, with the 
appurtenances unto the said James Suter, his heirs 
and assignes such as by him, or by the person, for 
the time being, claiming under him, shall be required. 
In witness whereof the said Wm. Raymond, hath 
set his hand and seal the day and year above written. 

Wm. Raymond, [seal. ] 

Signed sealed & Deld. 
In the presents of us. 
David Lynn. 

Sprigg Wooten. 

On the back of which deed was the following 
Indorsement: 

On the 3d. day of April 1773, Received of the 
within named James-^uter, Two hundred and twelve 
pounds & Ten Shillings, Current money within 
mentd. Witness my hand. 

Wm. Raymond. 
Teste 

David Lynn. 

J. Sprigg Wooten. 

On the 3d day of April, 1773, came before us the 
subscribers. Two of his Lordships Justices of the 
peace, for Fredk County, the within named Wm. 
Raymond, and acknowledged the within mentd. 
Land and premises to be the right and estate of the 
within named James Suter his heirs and assigns 
forever, and Casandra Raymond, wife of the said 
Wm. Raymond, being privately exd. out of the 
hearing of her said husband, released her right of 



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dower on the same, and declared that she did the 
same voluntarily and freely, without being compelled 
thereto by any threats of her said husband, or fear of 
his displeasure, according to the form of the Act of 
Assembly, in such case made and provided. 

David Lynn. 

Sprigg Watton. 
Reed; Oct. 15, 1773, of James Suter six shillings 
sterling for an alienation fine on the ment'd, Land, 
by order of his Lordships agent. 

Wm. M. Bell. 

State of Maryland 

Frederick County To wit: 

I hereby certify that the aforegoing is a true copy 
of the original Deed, as the same is recorded in Liber 
T, folio 136, one of the land records of Frederick 
County. 

In testimony whereof I herewith hereunto subscribe 
my name and affix the seal of the Circuit Court, for 
Frederick County this 25th day of November A. D. 

1895. 

John L. Jordan, Clerk. 



His Excellency Patrick Henry Jr. Esq. Governour 
of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

To William Haymond Esqr. 

By virtue of the power and authority to me 
delegated by the General Convention of the Repre- 
sentatives of the People of this Commonwealth, I, 
reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your 
Patriotism, Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct, do 
by and with the Advice of the Privy Council, by 
these Presents, constitute and appoint 3^ou to be 
Captain of Militia in the County of Monongalia. 



40 

You are carefull}'^ and diligently to discharge the 
Duty of Captain, of the Militia, by doing and 
performing all Manner of things thereunto belonging; 
and 3^ou are to pay a ready Obedience to all Orders 
and Instructions which from Time to Time you may 
receive from the Convention, Privy Council, or any 
of your Superior Officers, agreeable to the Rules and 
Regulations, of the Convention or General Assem- 
bly, and do require all Officers and Soldiers under 
your Command, to be Obedient, and to aid you in 
the Execution of this Commission according to the 
intent and purport thereof. 

Given under my Hand and Seal, at Williamsburg, 
this 13th day of March 1776. 

P. Henry. Jr. 
No. 14. 



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Capt. Charles Martin, Commissary, Cr. 



1777 



June 15. 
By Col. Zackee: Morgan, 28 Rations... 

By Do Do 1 quart of Salt. 

By Do — Do lOG lb. Bacon... 



By 200 lb. Bacon Delivered by Thos. Day 

By 12X Bushels Meal Delivered by Willm. 

Smith 

By one gallon Salt 

By 61 lb. Pork Delivered by your son Jesse. ... 

By Capt. Scott 137 lb Pork 

By James Scott. 303 lb. Pork 

By David Watkins 60 lb. Pork 



Capt. Martin, Dr. 
To Pork Damaged 44 lb. 
To Bacon Damaged 15 lb. 
To Thos. Day 20 '.4 lb. Pork, 
To Thos. Day, 4>^ lb. Bacon. 



•t) o 

0) 



61 
137 
303 

60 



561 



M% 



496K 



W O 



106 
200 



306 



19>^ 



286;!^ 



ID O 



12X 



12X 



12X 



KD 



Received the within mentioned Provisions for use of the Militia, in 
actual service, under my command from the 15th Day of April, 1777, to 
the 15th Day of June. 

Willm. H.wmond, 

Capt. 



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Pay Roll of Captain William Haymond's Com- 
pany of Monongalia county Militia. 

1777 From the loth of April until the r2th of June following. 



MEN'S NAMES. 



William Raymond, 

Capt. 
Morgan Morgan, Lt- 
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Received above mentioned provisions for use of the 
Militia stationed at Prickett's Fort, under my com- 
mand, from the 12th of June until the 15th of July 
following, 1777. 

WiLLM. Haymond, 

Capt. 

Sir: Please let Capt. Owen Davey have ten 
pounds of lead from your friend, &c. 

John Evans, 

To Capt. Wm. Ha3'mond. 15th Augt. 1777. 

Received of Capt. Jacob Prickett 433 lbs. of Pork, 
432 lb of Indian Meal and 1 1 Pints of Salt for use of 
the Militia stationed at Prickett's Fort, under my 
command. 

WiLLM. Haymond, 

Capt. 15th July, 1777. 



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The Commonwealth of Virginia, 

To WilHam Ha3^mond Gent: Greeting. 

Know you that from the Special Trust and Con- 
fidence which is reposed in 3'our fidelity, courage, 
activit}'^ and good conduct, our Governor with the 
advice of the Council of State, and on the recom- 
mendation of the Worshipful Court of the County of 
Monongalia, doth appoint you, the said William 
Raymond, Major, in the Militia of the said County 
of Monongalia. 

In testimony whereof these our letters are made 
patent. 

Witness Benjamin Harrison, Esquire, our said 
Governor at Richmond, this 12th day of Novem- 
ber, 1 78 1. Registered in the War Office. 

Benj. Harrison. 

The Commonwealth of Virginia, 

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: 
Know ye that the Court for the County of Monon- 
galia having nominated William Haymond, Coroner 
for the said County, our Governor with the advice of 
the Council of State, doth approve of the said 
nomination, and hereb}^ constitute and appoint him 
the said William Haymond, Gentleman, Coroner for 
the said County. 

In testimony whereof, these our letters are sealed 
with the seal of the Commonwealth, and made patent. 
Witness Benjamin Harrison, Esquire, our said gov- 
ernor, at Richmond, on the i6th day of Novr. , in the 
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
eighty-two, and Seventh of the Commonwealth. 

Benj. Harrison. 

Seal. 



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The Commonwealth of Virginia, to all whom these 

presents shall come, Greeting: 

Know ye that the Court for the Count}^ of Monon- 
galia, having nominated William Raymond, Gentle- 
man, to be Sheriff for the said Count}', our Governor, 
with the advice of the Council of State, doth approve, 
of the said nomination, and hereby constitute and 
appoint him, the said William Raymond, Gentle- 
man, Sheriff for the said County. 

In testimony whereof our letters are made patent. 

Witness Benjamin Rarrison, Esq., our said Gov- 
ernor at Richmond, on the 4th day of December, in 
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
and eighty-three. 

Benj. Rarrison. 
State Seal.' 



Virginia, Rarrison County: 

Be it remembered that at the house of George 
Jackson on Buckhannon River, the 20th day of Jul3% 
1784, a commission of the peace and a commission of 
Oyer and Terminor, for the said County, directed to 
John P. Duval, Benj. Wilson, Wm. Lowther, James 
Anderson, Renry Delay, Nichs. Carpenter, Wm. 
Robinson, John Powers, Thomas Cheney, Jacob 
Westfall, Salathiel Goff and Pairick Ramilton was 
presented and read and thereupon the Oath of 
Allegiance to the Commonwealth, was administered 
by Benj. Wilson Gent, to the said John P. Duval, 
and by him, to the above-named Trustees, and also 
the oath of office as directed by law. 

Ordered that William Raj^mond be Recommended 
as a proper person to fill the office of Principal Sur- 
veyor for said County, and certifyd. 

At a Court held for Rarrison county on the third 
Tuesday in September, 1784, andix ye-^.r of the Com- 



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monvvealth, Present, John Perry Duval, James Ander- 
son, Henry Delay, Jacob Westfall, Gent, Justices. 

William Raymond, Gent., Produced a Commission 
from his Excellency, the Governor, of Principal Sur- 
veyor of this County, bearing date the 26th day of 
August, 1784, and entered into Bond with John Perry 
Duvall and Henry Delay of ^2,000, pa3'able to his 
Excellency, &c. , for the faithful performance of his 
office, 9and said bond is ordered to be filed in the 
Clerk's Office. 

WE the President and Professors of William and 
Mary College, do hereby certify, his Excellency, the 
Governour, that we have examined William 
Haymond, Gentleman, and find him able to execute 
the office, and fulfill the duties of a Surveyor: and 
we nominate him to be Surve3'or for the Count}^ of 
Harrison. 

In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our 
hands and caused the seal of the said College to 
be affixed, this twent}^ third day of August, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
eighty four. 

G. Wythe. 
J. McClurg. 
Charles Bellini. 
Seal of the 

College. 



The Commonwealth of Virginia, to William 
Haymond, Gentleman, Greeting: 

Know you that our Governour, being duly certi- 
fied of your ability and good character, hath consti- 
tuted you the said William Haymond, Surveyor for 
the Count}^ of Harrison, with authority to execute 
the said office, within the said County, and to take 
for so doing, the fees allowed by law. Saving and 



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reserving to the President and professors of the Col- 
lege of William and Mar}^ one sixth part of the legal 
fees which shall be received by 3"ou. 

In testimony whereof these our letters are made 
patent. 

Witness Benjamin Harrison Esquire, our Govern- 
our, at the City of Richmond, the 26, day of August, 
in the year of Our Lord, One thousand seven hun- 
dred and Eight}^ four. 

Benj. Harrison. 

[state seal] 

Endorsement. 

The within named William Haymond, is hereby 
required to give bond before the Court of said County, 
with two sufficient sureties, in the sum oi two thousand 
pounds, payable to the Governour and his successors 
for the faithful execution of his office. 

With advice of Council. 

Benj. Harrison. 



deed for home place. 

This indenture made the Nineteenth day of 
September, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand 
seven hundred and ninet}" one between Isaac Shinn 
and Samuel Shinn, of the County of Harrison, and 
State of Virginia, of the one part, and William 
Haymond of the same County; of the other part; 
Witnesseth: That the said Isaac Shinn & Samuel 
Shinn in compliance with the last will and testament 
of Benjamin Shinn; deceased, and in consideration of 
the sum of one hundred pounds, current money, to 
them in hand paid, have bargained and sold unto the 
said William Ha3^mond, and his heirs and assigns 
one certain tract or parcel of land, lying in the said 
County of Harrison, containing one hundred and 
ninety four acres and a half, including part of a tract 



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of four hundred acres of land, granted to Joseph 
Gregory by patent, and also part of another tract of 
four hundred acres of land granted to Sotha Hickman 
by patent, situate on Daviss' run, or (other wise 
Zacks run) a drain of Elk Creek, and bounded as 
follows, to wit: 

(Here follows description.) 

In witness whereof the said Isaac Shinn, and 
Samuel Shinn, have hereunto subscribed their names 
and affixed their seals the day and year above 
written. 

Isaac Shinn. 
Samuel Shinn 
Acknowledged in open Court. 
Teste. 

Benj. Wilson, Clerk. 

Harrison County, September Court, 1791. 

Then Isaac and Samuel Shinn's, came into Court, 
and by virtue of Benjamin Shinn, deceased, last will 
and testament, they acknowledged the within Deed 
of conveyance of 194 and ^ acres of land to William 
Haymond, and the said Deed was ordered to be 
recorded. 

Teste. Benj. Wilson, C. H. C. 

(Deed Book No. 1-page 198.) 



SEAL. 
SEAL. 



The following is an account of a meteor that passed 
over the North West portion of Virginia, about the 
year 1800, and by its brilliant light accompanied by 
tremendous explosions, created consternation and 
alarm among the inhabitants: 

Agreeable to my own observations and taking into 
view the observations of several others, who saw the 
light rise up previous to its spreading, the origin of 
the phenomenon must have been between the West 



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and North West from me, at the distance of about 
five or six and twenty miles, at or near the Buckeye 
bottom. 

The first reportwas rumbling, and by information 
was heard upwards of two hundred miles. The 
subsequent reports were distinct not involved one 
with another, and regularly timed to about two thirds 
of a second, much louder than cannon or other 
reports that I ever heard. They passed from West 
to East, about three miles and three quarters above 
the Earth, at the rate of about thirty eight miles in a 
minute. 

Their distance from me when nearest, was about 
six miles and two thirds. The distance from me to 
the last I heard, was about twenty miles and one 
third. 

I am Dr. Sir yr. obt. Servt. 

Wm. Raymond. 
Mb. Robert Newman. 

Centreville. 

William Raymond prepared a pamphlet containing 
1 02 pages in manuscript, setting forth explanations 
of geometrical problems, which shows deep study 
and an accurate knowledge of the science of math- 
ematics. 

The little book is not dated and is said to have 
been prepared for the celebrated lawyer, Phillip 
Doddridge. 

The following preface on the title page in the 
author's handwriting explains its object: 

"Sir: You request from me an explanation of the 
principles of circles, squares, globes, cubes and tri- 



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angles in all cases wherein I have a knowledge of 
such principles, which have not been explained in 
any books, also suitable propositions. 

It is impossible for me to know what principles 
have been explained in books, but I will make 
explanations, which I have not discovered in an}'- 
books, and state propositions suitable thereto, but 
in some cases, I shall necessarily employ propositions 
and proportions stated in books, and as I have never 
discovered an explanation of the principles on which 
the rules for obtaining the area of circles is founded, 
I will commence with that explanation." 



WILLIAM HAYMOND S WILL. 

I, William Raymond of Harrison County, and 
State of Virginia, do make my last will and testa- 
ment, as follows. To wit: 

2d. I give to my wife Mary Raymond, my negro 
Dick, and one third of my land as long as she lives 
& one third of my personal property. 

3d. I give to my son Cyrus Raymond, and his 
heirs and assigns all my land. 

4th. I wish the balance of my personal estate, 
including debts due to me, to be divided between all 
my children equally, 

5th. I appoint Thomas Raymond and C3TUS Ray- 
moad, my Executors. 

Witness my hand & seal, the loth day of Novem- 
ber, 182 1. Wm. Raymond [seal] 

Test. 

Wm. Bell 
Thomas Rickman 
RuFus Raymond. 

(Will Book No. 2. page 399.) 



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DIED. 

(Written by John G. Jackson). 

At his residence near Clarksburg, Harrison county, 
Virginia, on the 12th, November, 182 1, Major 
William Raymond, who was born on the 4th of 
January O. S. , 1740. 

This excellent man was the surveyor of his county, 
and a justice of the peace therein, from its first forma- 
tion until his decease, and such was the purity of his 
life, notwithstanding the tendency of his official duties 
to excite the ill will of the disappointed speculator, 
and suitor, that he lived and died without an enemy; 
and his virtues became so proverbiable that when 
excellence was ascribed to a great and good man, it 
was said of him, "He was almost as perfect as Major 
Haymond." 

Major Haymond was a sergeant in one of the com- 
panies commanded by Colonel George Washington, 
before tne Revolutionary war, and was honored on 
man}^ occasions with the confidence of that great man. 
His mind was well stored with interesting anecdotes 
of that interesting period, which he communicated to 
his friends with his characteristic simplicit}^ and so 
rigid was his veracity, that no inducement could 
prompt him to magnify the incidents, b}^ the vivid 
coloring so usual in the narrative of events long past by. 

The writer of this humble tribute to his worth, for 
twent}^ 3^ears, found at the elections, where he was 
often a candidate for the popular suffrage, in this 
venerable man, a constant opponent. But his opposi- 
tion had nothing in it of the characteristics of part}^ 
strife. It was founded onjthe convictions of his judg- 
ment, and he never strove to unite a single voter with 



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him, much less did he presume to censure those who 
entertained different opinions upon political subjects. 
On thecontrar3% he declined expressing his intentions 
how to vote, lest it might tend to influence others. 

In that period of great excitement, he frequently 
visited the writer, and after spending the night at his 
house, attended the election and voted for his com- 
petitor. 

Yet his society was sought for and cherished, 
because he was personally a sincere friend, and in the 
exercise of his high privileges as an American citizen 
at the polls, he acted with the same spirit that gov- 
erned him on the bench of justice, without favor and 
without malice. 

How enviable would our condition be if the exam- 
ple of our departed friend was universally imitated. 
Then instead of the widespread mischiefs of political 
convulsion, which we constantly witness at the period 
of elections, and the ultimate effects of which every 
true patriot contemplates with pain and sorrow, we 
should realize all the good that belongs to the right of 
self-government, without alloy 

It was not in the enumerated walks of life alone 
that Major Raymond shone conspicuous. He was 
frugal and temperate, and in a state of mere medio- 
city of fortune, was happy and contented. 

He died in the presence of his wife and eight of his 
children. 

He had 19 children, of whom 11 survived him, 81 
grandchildren, of whom 62 were living; 38 great 
grandchildren, of whom 31 were living; 9 sons-in-law, 
of whom 6 were living, and 4 daughters-in-law, all 
living. J. 

National Intelligencer^ December /j, 182 1. 



old letters. 

Ritchie County, W. Va. , 

September, 8, 1871. 
Col. Luther Haymond, 

Clarksburg, W. Va. 

Dear Sir: — Your letter of the ist inst. was received 
some days ago. In answer to 3'our two first inquiries 
I will state that my father had a brother whose name 
was Calder Haymond, and that the Raymonds of 
Taylor County are descendants of his. As far back 
as I can recollect Uncle Calder Haymond lived on 
the east side of the Monongahela River, about three 
miles below where Fairmont now is. He was six 
years older than my father, and considerably larger 
person. I was once at his house which was in his 
second wife's time. They had one daughter (the 
only child) about ten 3'ears old. He had three sons 
by his first wife, that I knew, and some daughters. 
One of his daughters married Raynier Hall. I have 
seen her. Another married one of the Holts. His 
three sons' names were Edward, Thomas and John. 
The latter was much the youngest of the three 
brothers. Edward and Thomas were the oldest of 
all of them. 

I have no certain knowledge of the time when 
Uncle Calder moved to Monongalia County, but I 
presume it was before the commencement of the 
Revolutionary war, as his son Thomas' name is on 
the pay roll as a soldier in a company commanded by 
my father, and stationed in Morgantown in the year 
1777. Thomas Raymond's name is also on the pa}' 
roll of a company of volunteers, raised in 1781 at 



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Morgantown by Capt. Ferrel, to be under command 
of Genl. Clark, in the West. 

Thomas afterwards got to be a Methodist preacher. 
When I was a small boy he used to preach near my 
father's. I suppose he was sent to preach on some 
circuit on the Eastern shore of Maryland, where he 
died, which must have been before the year 1800. 

The Raymonds of Taylor County are descendants 
of Edward Raymond. I think he was Uncle Calder's 
oldest son. He too had been a Revolutionary soldier. 
In old times I often heard him spoken of as a first 
rate soldier. I recollect hearing that the Captain he 
had served under said that if he had the whole world 
to choose soldiers from, that Edward Raymoud & 
another soldier, whose name I have forgotten, would 
be his first choice. 

Re lived on the old State road six miles east of 
where Fetterman now is. In the month of April 
1808, I stayed two nights with him. Re was a man 
of few words, but I got him to tell of some of his 
fighting in the army, but don't recollect the particu- 
lars clear enough to write. I remember that he told 
me that he served live years in the army. 

Uncle Calder and his son John removed to Indiana 
about the year 181 2 or 1813. I don't recollect 
whether Edward went with them, or whether he 
died, but Edward's son John remained on the farm. 

In 1844 I was at his house. Re was then a wid- 
ower, but married again afterwards. I don't know 
whether he had any brothers there or not; it is prob- 
able that he had; if so the present Raymonds of 
Taylor County are their descendants. 



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As to the Haymins of the West, which you 
inquire about, I have no idea that they are relations 
of GUI family. Their name is spelled differently. 
They first settled on the Ohio River some 6 or seven 
miles above the Letart falls, on the Ohio side. I 
was once aquainted with some of them. They did 
not resemble our famil}^ The\^ were of good standing 
in the neighborhood, as I was told. 

In the winter of the year 1834-5, ^ stayed five or 
six weeks at Cincinnati, where I got acquainted with 
two or three of them who lived at Newport a town 
on the Kentucky side of the river opposite to Cincin- 
nati. I stayed one night with one of them. He 
seemed very anxious to find out something that would 
show our two families were related. He asked me 
many questions respecting my ancestors, and proba- 
bly I asked him similar questions, respecting his 
ancestors, but all to no purpose. Finally he told me 
that in the time of the American Revolution, his 
ancestors had taken sides with the British; that when 
the Jefferson Republican party was organized, that 
they had taken sides and acted with it so long as it 
lasted; and that the then present generation were 
members of the Whig party. In reply to this I told 
him that my ancestors and nearly all of them who 
were able to bear arms in that Revolution, had done 
so on side of American independence; that the}^ were 
or had been members of the Federal party; and that 
I could only claim kin with him so far as Whig prin- 
ciples were concerned. This ended the conversation 
on that subject. If you want the two pay rolls, men- 
tioned in this letter, you can have them, they are 
both in my father's handwriting. 



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I once had the muster roll of the company com 
manded by my father, in the year 1777, but many 
years ago I let Thomas S. Raymond or his son Wil- 
liam have it. As William talked about publishing 
or writing a history of the family, it is probable it is 
now in possession of Alpheus Raymond, among the 
papers of his father or brother William. 
Very Respectfully Yours, 

Daniel Raymond. 



W. Va. Sept. 26, 1871. 

Col. Luther Raymond 

Dear Sir. Yours of the i6th, inst. came to 
hand a few daj's ago. 

I think that Uncle Calder Raymond and his son 
John and his family, settled somewhere within 10 or 
15 miles of Brookeville, Indiana. Your uncle Lewis 
Bond, I think, had some acquaintance with them. 
They went there a short time before he died. The 
place he settled on was some five or six miles north 
or north east of Brookville. 

If my father had any other brothers than Calder, I 
have no recellection of ever hearing of any of them. 
I have heard of two of his sisters, one of which 
married a man whose name was Kelly, and the other 
married William Kenton, a brother to Simon Kenton 
whose name you may have seen in the history of the 
Indian wars. 

Wm. Kenton came to my father's house, I think 
in the year 1802, & stayed there a week or two. Re 
was a man of good appearance. At that time he 



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lived on Mad River, Ohio, in Champaign County, I 

think. 

Yours &c. 

Danl. Haymond. 



New York, 26th, Dec. 1845. 
Sir. Yours of the 19th, inst. received. I met 
your grandfather four times in the years 1 784-1 786, 
once at my house in Fayette Co. Pennsylvania, three 
times at Clarksburg, every time on business. All I 
can say of him is, that he was very intelligent, under- 
stood thoroughly every branch of his business, and 
was an excellent officer. He was moreover disinter- 
ested and a man of the strictest probity and integrity. 
No one in that part of the country enjoyed a higher 
consideration, and was more universally respected. 
But owing to my short personal intercourse with him, 
and to the distance of our placesof residence, I know 
absolutely nothing of his place of birth, services or 
history. 

Your Obdt. Servant. 

Albert Gallatin. 
Mr. Luther Raymond. 
Clarksburg, Va. 



The following accounts of Major William Haymond 
were kept on the back of a militia pay roll. 

1779. 

March 17: Mr. Henry Stephen Dr. 

To 2 Bushels of corn at 8 Dollars Pr. Bushel ^4-16-0 

April 12. Capt. David Scott Dr. 

To 2 Bushels of Corn at 10 Dollars pr. Bushel ;^6-oo 



April Col. Zackll. Morgan Dr. 

To 2 Bushels of corn at lo Dollars or lent. 

May I. Colo. John Evans. Dr. 
To 2^ Bushels of corn-lent. 

May I. Jacob Jacobs Dr. 
To iVi Bushels of corn-lent. 



PART FIFTH 



LETTERS WRITTEN BY WILLIAM HAYMOxNTD, JR., TO 
LUTHER RAYMOND. 

Palatine Hill, Va., i8th Feby 1842. 
Mr. Luther Haymond, 

Sir: Your letter was duly received some time past 
asking or requesting something in relation to the edu- 
cation, residence, trade, &c. , of my father. I should 
have answered before onl}' I have been unwell. It is 
but little I can say in relation to his life, nothing 
scarcely ot an}^ consequence, some few anecdotes, 
&c. It is, I think, likely he was raised on the East- 
ern Shore of Maryland, but I do not know. Let that 
be as it ma}" he lived before moving to this country 
near Montgomery Court House, at or near Rockville. 
He, I suppose, was educated someplace there. He 
was one of the best arithmeticians, understood sur- 
vej^irg &c. I believe he had learned the trade of 
wagon- making, however he could make almost any- 
thing out of wood and iron. ^ 

I have understood he commanded a company at 
the taking possession of Fort Duquesne, now Pitts- 
burgh. I have heard it said when living in Maryland, 
he being from home, his dwelling house was burnt, 
on his return my mother was bewailing their loss, he 
in reply said they had a kitchen, and appeared to be 
contented. 

At the above mentioned place, near said Court 
House, I suppose I was born in the year 1771. 

In the year 1773 my father moved to this country. 
It is strongl}" impressed on my mind, that we stopped 
in the forks of Cheat River, at or near Rogers Fort. 
We ma}^ have sta\xd here a year or two. I think 
one of my brothers, a child, died. This can be known 



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by reference to his family record. The next I recol 
lect, our family were living in the Monongahela 
Glades near Decker's Creek. It seems very strange 
that any person should have settled there at that 
date, when the whole country was almost vacant, I 
have no recollection now long we lived there, but I 
presume not long. As soon as war broke out we had 
to leave there and the whole family went to Kearn's 
Fort, opposite where Morgantown now stands. My 
father then had eight negroes. We planted and 
tended in corn the ground where Morgantown now 
stands. This was a stockaded fort. At one time I 
think there was a company of soldiers there. While 
living ihere Coburn's Fort, about two miles this side 
of Kearns' Fort, was burnt by the Indians. I was at 
it when on fire. 

How it happened that I was suffered to go I can- 
not tell. Miller and Woodfin were killed on Miller's 
place, three miles from Kearn's Fort while we were 
there. Thej^ were brought into the fort on poles, 
having their feet and hands tied and the pole running 
between them. I remember this perfectly. When 
we left the Glades we had two horses, Slider and 
Prince, the former a brown, the latter a black horse. 
They often ran away and went to the Glades; brother 
John and myself would go after them. These two 
horses I may hereafter mention. While living in 
Kearn's Fort we had the small pox in the natural 
wa3^ all the family except my father, who had had 
it. Two children I think were all that died there 
with that disease; however my father lost six or seven 
of his negroes there. It was said they were poisoned. 

While living in said fort we boys would go on what 
was called the Hog-Back near the fort to hunt ramps. 
We used the bow and arrow and were very good at 
shooting them. Once while in the yard some one 
shot up an arrow straight; it fell and struck through 
the wrist of either Col. John Evans or one of the 



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Wilsons, it was hard to draw out. This was all the 
accidents I recollect happening while we lived in 
the fort. 

We moved from the fort what time I cannot say, 
went about two or three miles below town on the land 
of John Johnson, sometimes on the land of William 
Joseph. While living on these farms, we were often 
called up in the night and moved off a mile or two 
to some house for safety. Once I recollect we went 
to our house, while there some person came riding 
by as fast as he could and said he saw an Indian just 
back. The men ran out with their guns but no 
Indians. On examining it was found that he had 
seen a dogwood which some person had cut, and a 
red substance had oozed out of it. We often had 
such alarms, and often the Indians killed or took 
prisoners in three or four miles or less of us. During 
what was called the hard winter, the snow was very 
deep. We lived in a large old house on Johnson's 
land; it had two doors. I remember we would draw 
large logs in the house with Prince and roll them on 
the fire. My father would go on Wickwire's creek, 
about sixteen miles from this place, and hunt in the 
fall. This hard winter he had a number of deer 
skins hung around the house to keep the wind off. 

In those days we wore short breeches and leggins; 
what else I do not recollect. How we lived I have 
an indistinct recollection. I remember brother John 
and myself with Slider and Prince went to Ruble's 
Mill, in Pennsylvania, eleven miles, stayed all night, 
next morning when on our horses to start for home. 
Ruble or some other person brought each of us a 
piece of light bread spread with butter. This I 
thought such a great feast that I have it in my mind 
to this day: 

While we were living, I think on Joseph's land, the 
Indians, I presume, killed Madison, the surveyor of 
all this country. Hanway was appointed. I have 



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understood, or heard at the time, that my father 
might have gotten the appointment, but I suppose 
he thought Hanway wanted it and he would not 
interfere. 

While living here Albert Gallatin and — Savory 
were at my father's to see something about land. 

The surve3^or's office was kept at a Mr. Pierpoint's 
about two miles from where we lived. I was once 
there with my father. There were several gentlemen 
there from Philadelphia, getting or locating land. As 
my father had been in the countr}^ above this place, 
they applied to him to locate for them, how much I 
cannot say, lo, 20 or 100,000 acres more or less. 
My father directed how their entries should be made. 
They wished to pay but he would have nothing. He 
or they said they might or would give me something; 
finally they gave me a dollar. I remember, I think, 
hearing my father say he expected they would give 
eight or ten dollars. Next day we started for home 
on Silder and Prince, with the dollar in my pocket, 
if I had a pocket, but before we got home my father 
borrowed the dollar and sent me to Kearn's Mill to 
buy corn with it. I believe I got i ^ bushels. I 
have often thought of this circumstance. He here 
had an opportunit}^ to get a considerable sum if he 
would have made a charge, and although his family 
were perhaps on the brink of suffering, he preferred 
leaving it to their honor rather than charge them. It 
seems as if no situation of circumstances would 
change his course. While living here at William 
Joseph's or Johnson's, the last negro (a man) died. 
While we were living on Joseph's land David Morgan 
killed the two Indians. They sent my father a piece 
of tanned Indian skin for a strop. 

I went occasionally to school, I suppose a year or 
two. Two bo3's and myself were one day in the woods 
near Owen Davis' orchard. They concluded to go and 
get some apples and I stayed back. On their return 



I helped eat them. This comes the nearest t 
steaHng of anything I have any recollection of in my 
life, my partaking of a part. How 1 happen to 
remember it so long I cannot say. In those days I 
used the bow and arrow, killed squirrels in the corn 
field, birds, &c. 

I was with m}^ father at the rope works making 
cords to make a hoppose. He was preparing to go 
in the Revolutionary Army and had got ready, when 
news came that peace was made. They had a great 
rejoicing meeting on the occasion at Morgantown. 
The Indians were less troublesome than they had 
been. People began to stir about. 

Harrison County was formed out of Monongalia in 
in 1783 or 4. My father was appointed surveyor, we 
still living on Joseph's farm. Thomas Laidley had 
brought a store to Morgantown and Mr. Neely. My 
father bought a bear skin coat, as he had to go to 
Williamsburg to be examined. The morning before 
he started Laidley and Mense his storekeeper came 
to our house with I believe twenty half joes, in all two 
hundred dollars in gold, to send to Richmond to buy 
land warrants. I remember hearing my father say 
he was ashamed to wear said coat for fear people 
would say he was proud. 

Of the old settlers I have norecollection. Whether 
my father was in the Revolutionary war or not I do 
not know. If he was it was while we lived in the 
fort. How it happened that he was called Major I 
cannot say. He, I suppose, was in the army when 
Daniel Morgan was a waggoner there of which I 
suppose you have heard. It has always been my 
impression that he was in the Revolutionary Army. 
How it happened that he got the appointment of 
surveyor in Harrison I cannot tell, but 1 think he did 
not electioneer for it. I have omitted to say that 
some time before this he was appointed one of the 
Commissioners to settle the claims to unpatented 



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lands in the country. During this time he obtained 
a certificate for his land in the Glades. He also got 
two other certificates for land in Harrison County, 
I may hereafter refer to them. In the spring or 
summer of 1784 brother John with others started 
from the mouth of Decker's Creek in canoes down 
the river and went to the mouth of Kanawha to 
survey for Vanderen. 

On the return of my father from Richmond he went 
to Clarksburg on his duty of office. In October 
following brother John, having returned from 
Kanawha, and myself, with those two celebrated 
horses, Silder and Prince, took two loads of plunder. 
I was then thirteen years old. Brother John went up 
to Jonathan, and got two or three more horses to 
help us move. I knew no person in Clarksburg, and 
was quite lost. There I met David Pruntyand went 
back of that hill with him to hunt chestnuts. 
Clarksburg was built by two rows of cabins extending 
from near where the Court House now is to Jackson's 
house on the east side of Elk Creek. It had been 
built to answer for a fort. Next day we started for 
home which day the Indians attacked I believe Mr. 
West where Weston now stands. When we arrived 
at home we got a Mr. Tibbs to help us with a horse. 
We started and on the first day stayed or lodged on 
Tom's Run two miles below Smithton. Next day 
got to Prickett's settlement. Third day to the Valley 
River, F'ourth day just above where William Martin's 
brick house now stands, and the fifth day we arrived 
in Clarksburg in the afternoon, having been five 
days on the road, nearly. 

If I feel like writing I will continue the narrative 
although a great part so far is in relation to myself. 
When I think of those times above mentioned, it 
seems strange to me how the people survived, many 
times without anything to eat and little to wear. I 
think I ought to have stated that when we were on 



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Joseph's farm my father gave $1000 for a peck of 
salt. He had a considerable quantity of Continental 
money. It is likely he sold his possessions in 
Maryland and took continental money for the same. 

Wm. Raymond. 



LETTER NO. 2. 

Palatine Hill, Marion County, W. Va., 

March i8th, 1842. 
Luther Haymond. 

Sir: In my first letter I informed you that I had 
a brother who died at Roger's Fort. On examining 
an extract from the record of our famih^ I find my 
recollection was right, although I suppose I had not 
noticed it for fifty years. Walter, a brother, was 
born in May 1774 and died in November of the same 
year. I am not able to say where your father was 
born. He was born in January, 1776, I suppose in 
the Glades or in Kearn's Fort, perhaps he can tell. 
Your Aunt Sarah Bond was born in 1778, and sucked 
when her mother had the small pox. We then lived 
in the Fort. 

I omitted to tell you that in 1782 m}" father bought 
330 acres of the land I live on, for which he paid one 
hundred pounds. He intended to settle on it, and I 
suppose would have done so, had he not got the 
surveyor's office in Harrison Count}^ 

I will now commence my narrative. At Clarks- 
burg where we arrived in the fall of 1784 we stopped 
at a house nearly opposite James P. Bartlett's tavern. 
I have no recollection how long we stayed there; 
perhaps, but a few days, as my father bought 60 
acres of land for sixt}?^ pounds, about three quarters 
of a mile above town where we moved with Slider 
and Prince and built a house for an office. 

You have heard, I suppose, that my father always 



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kept an open house, we had considerable of company, 
strangers &c. coming to the office. While here my 
father purchased Dick, I suppose you remember him, 
and also a negro girl named Patience. On this place 
we farmed some with Silder and Prince, but it was 
but little. Here I laid my bow and arrows aside and 
used the rifle. We often had company. Col. 
Lowther, J. Custard and others shot matches. I 
was not able to shoot off hand. I took a rest, the 
others shot off hand. I nearly always shot cutting 
shots — about 25 or 30 yards was the distance. 

Sometime about the year 1787 there was a law 
passed to make a road from the mouth of the Little 
Kanawha to some point on Cheat or further east. 
My father was one of the Commissioners. The first 
part of the road was I believe made from Clarksburg 
eastward. I was once with the Commissioners as far 
as Minear's on the Valley River viewing and marking 
the road. The Commissioners then commenced 
viewing from Clarksburg to the Ohio River, but would 
get lost in coming back. They then started with the 
compass at Clarksburg, and ran a due west course 
and struck the Ohio River six or eight miles below 
Marietta. They then marked the road back to Clarks- 
burg keeping the west line for a guide. The road was 
then cut out. On my father's return from one of these 
trips he found my mother sick in November or Decem- 
ber, 1788. He also came home sick. A few days 
after my mother died. I can say but little about her, 
as I scarcely had sense to know I had a mother before 
she was gone. Old Mr. Morgan Morgan has told me 
that she understood the scriptures better than any other 
person he ever knew. She, I believe, held to the 
Church of England. She was buried at the west end 
of Clarksburg. Two years past when I was at Clarks- 
burg, I went to see if I could find any sign of the 
grave. I hired a man to pale it in, which had been 
done about 53 years before. She, I believe, was a 



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woman of strong mind and high temper. I had by 
this time become familiar with a gun and the woods. 
Killed turkeys and some deer. For some years the 
Indians had not been very bad or done much mis- 
chief. Once in Clarksburg I was at a draft to furnish 
men to be stationed on the frontier. My father stood 
draft but got clear. Some little I went to school, but 
spent much of my time in Clarksburg playing ball. &c. 
But I never could find agreeable company with those 
high frolicking people, for I never attempted to dance 
more than two or three times in my life. I believe 
that in the fall of 1789 my father married again, 
brother John and myself were at that time on Ten- 
mile hunting. We had surmised its taking place 
before we left home. Of course I suppose we were 
opposed to it, for it seems to be an instinct in 1 child 
not to love a step-mother. So it was with me. She 
always used me as well as she could, and the rest of 
the children, but if I did not love her I never to my 
recollection gave her a disrespectful word during the 
time I was at home. 

I believe in the year 1790 I went with the commis- 
sioners to the Ohio River to view the road made. 
While at Isaac Williams', opposite to the mouth of 
the Muskingum and Marietta, I laid out a town for 
Mr. Williams, for which he gave me a lot. By the 
by I neglected to get a deed for it and lost it, though 
after I moved to the place where I now live, I sent 
him a plan of the town with my name on the lot with 
the request that he would make me a deed, but he 
failed. This shows what a person may lose by 
neglecting at times to do a little writing. 

On our way home we camped on the flat just this 
side of the lower crossing of Middle Island Creek, 
built fires to keep off the gnats. I had laid down and 
fallen asleep when one of the company came to me 
and said the Indians were around or near the fire. 
We moved off a small distance and stayed until near 



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day, when we started. I supposed they had heard 
some animal walking. This was the greatest alarm 
I ever had before or after, being awakened out of sleep 
was the reason I suppose. Yours, &c. , 

Wm. Haymond. 



LETTER NO. 3. 

Palatine Hill, March 25th, 1842. 
Luther Haymond : 

Sir: — In m}?^ last I informed you of our alarm on the 
road just this side of the lower crossing of Middle 
Island. We proceeded home without being molested. 
About this time or the year before there was a great 
scarcit}^ of grain in Harrison county. A great many 
people went to Pennsylvania after it, among the rest 
brother John and myself. We went to John Hall's, 
where Mr. Reeder now lives, and bought a canoe of 
said Hall, went down the river to the mouth of 
White ly to Thomas Douglass. He had married my 
sister Ann. There we bought, I believe, five or seven 
barrels of flour. Started up the river, hired a hand 
three miles above Morgantown. We continued and 
arrived with our flour at the mouth of Elk creek after 
a week's hard labor. 

About or in the year 1790 the Indians killed John- 
son's family on Ten Mile Creek (you know the place). 
Johnson had gone on Saturda}' to watch a lick. On his 
return home he found his house in a dreadful situa- 
tion. The bed tick had been ripped open, the feathers 
scattered, a cow killed, and I believe, a hog in the 
yard. He judged the cause and immediately started 
for Clarksburg, but took the contrary course. He 
went the same or nearly the same course the Indians 
did for a short distance, however, he got to Clarks- 
burg about 2 o'clock. About twenty of us started, 
some on horseback and some on foot, ran nearly the 



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whole distance and got to the house of Johnson about 
one hour before sundown, took the Indians' trail, in 
about two or three hundred yards we passed a deer 
that Johnson had killed and there brought off his 
horse. We went about one mile on the trail to the 
top of the ridge, some of the men stopped to parle}^ 
some of us proceeded a little further and found John- 
son's wife and three children lying dead. The}^ had 
been tomhawked and scalped and were laid with their 
feet pointing east, west, north and south. As near as 
I could guess thus : +. This was an awful sight to 
me and the rest of the men, but nothing in compari- 
son to that of Mr, Johnson. The bereaved husband 
and father seemed to be unable to bear the shock. If 
it was hard to bear in those days of hardships how do 
you think it would be borne in these days. We laid 
the dead together and covered them with a bedcover, 
and returned back to the house, went into the woods 
and staid till the next morning, when we dug a grave 
and buried the four together. As we were about 
finishing. Col. Lowther with about fifteen men came 
to us. We then took the trail. They kept along the 
ridge, up Tenmile creek, crossed the creek, raised the 
hill on the west side and fell on the head of a small 
stream of Rush Run near the mouth of the latter, 
crossed Rush run, and took the hill, just leaving 
Owen Davis', now Marsh's place, to the left. Here 
we held a consultation and it was decided that the 
Indians had too long the start, and if overtaken would 
kill the prisoners and the chase was given up and we 
returned home. This Indian tale may perhaps be out 
of place, but thinking of those days I could not for- 
bear giving you an account of this sorrowful event. 

I must tell you a little anecdote. A Mr. Amaziah 
Davisson who formerly lived about three miles east of 
Clarksburg, had traveled the road from Marietta to 
Clarksburg. I saw him some time after this, and he 
told me that he had been ver}" uneas3' for some time 



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past, as he had heard that my father had called him 
a liar. He had said there was one hill on said road 
that it would take i,ooo horses to pull an empty 
wagon up. When my father heard it he said it was 
a lie, for 500 could do it. After his hearing how he 
happened to be called a liar he was pleased at the joke. 

I informed you that my father had taken two cer- 
tificates for land in Harrison (I supposed assigned to 
him), one on the West Fork for a valuable tract, some 
person claimed it and he gave it up. The other was 
for 400 acres on Rooting Creek where Simon Arnold 
now lives, I remember hearing it said that he got 
this tract surveyed and some person who lived on the 
Branch claimed the land and he assigned him the 
plat. Adjoining this he had a preemption warrant of 
1000 acres which he got surveyed. 1 helped to carry 
the chain. Previous to our going to survey, George 
Arnold, who made the 1000 survey, asked my 
father if he intended to take the land between the 
400 acre survey and Grigsby's survey. My father 
said not and Arnold located it. I believe that this 
was the best land in the bounds of the 1000 acre sur- 
vey. My father it seems had made his calculations 
to make his surve}^ above the resident right, and would 
not change even for better land. I do not make this 
statement with any reflection on him. I am perfectly 
satisfied, but to show how little he cared for anything 
in this world. The land he sold for little but I 
expect it in part is now valuable. 

Poor old Slider and Prince died I believe while we 
lived at that place. They had lived in the times that 
tried men's souls, but this they knew but little about. 
I shall have but little to say hereafter to you in this 
narrative except you wish to hear some other of my 
adventures with the Indians, &c. I think Nicholas 



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Carpenter, who lives in your place (Clarksburg, Va. ) 
was with us at Johnson's at the time his family was 
killed. Ask him. Yours &c. 

Wm. Raymond. 

No. 4. 

Palatine Hill, Va., 6th Apl. 1842. 

Luther Haymond, 

Sir: In my last letter I had brought my narrative 
up to the year 1 790. We were still living on the hill 
above Clarksburg. The Indians were getting to be 
very troublesome, still we would venture in the woods. 
It seems strange to me at this time, that my father 
would indulge us in our excursions at that time. As 
those times are so forcibly impressed on my mind I 
will give you an account of one or two circumstances 
which to me now would seem very perilous. In the 
fall of 1 790 I went with old Mr. Thomas Nutter and 
Isaac Richards on a hunting excursion to see if we 
could find any buffaloes. We steered our course 
through the hills towards Marietta, generally leaving 
the road to our right hand until we reached the 
Hughes River, five miles below where the road 
crossed said river, we fell on the trail of a buffalo bull, 
followed him about a mile when we saw him jump up 
and start to run. Richards and myself fired at the 
same instant; one of us shot him in some part of 
the head which brought him to his knees; the other 
hit him behind the shoulder which was the killing 
shot. He ran about 150 yards and fell. He was a 
fine animal. We butchered him and set out for 
home. We came into the State road near where Mr. 
Martin now lives, we arrived safe at home with our 
meat. One other trip I will mention. In the last 
of February, 1791, Jonathan Coburn and mj^self 
started on a trapping voyage; we hired Daniel Mc- 
Cann to go with us to the mouth of Fink's Fork of 



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Leading Creek to help carry our traps out and bring 
in our horses. Just below the mouth of said Fork 
Coburn and myself camped, built a canoe, and stayed 
there about a week. While there we caught four 
beavers. We then descended the creek in our canoe 
to its mouth, which we thought was about twenty-five 
miles. At the junction of the creek with the river we 
set a trap and then went up the river about one hun- 
dred yards; it was then near dark. Coburn went on 
the land to find a place to camp; he came back and 
said he had found a fine chance for a fire, a small 
house, he said, which had been built by hunters to put 
meat in. We struck lire, put in a quantity, and it 
blazed up finely while the bark lasted, and then it 
took the balance of the night to keep it alive. It was 
a very cold night and too dark to hunt wood. As 
soon as day came we made a fine fire to thaw our- 
selves. Coburn said he had dreamed he had a 
scuffle with a man who had but one arm and said he, 
"I expect I shall findabeaver in the trap with one foot 
off." He went to the trap and brought back a beaver 
which had lost one of its fore legs. I suppose he had 
been caught in a trap and gnawed his leg off. This was 
one of the truest dreams I ever knew. We then de- 
scended the river slowly saying to each other that when 
we got to the usual crossing places of the Indians we 
would be very careful, but we always forgot to be so 
in crossing those places. There had been a great 
beech mast the preceding year. There was plent}^ of 
mast in March. The woods were full of bear, deer 
and some buffalo, and a large quantity of turkey's. 
We lived chiefly on turke3's. They were very fat. 
About ten miles above the mouth of the West Fork 
of the Kanawha we killed a buffalo, and about six 
miles above the same place we saw a bear swimming 
the river. We landed and had a hard fight. We shot 
about six times before we killed him. I think he 
would have weighed about 400 pounds We took him 



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on board our canoe. Just above said West Fork I 
saw some deer, landed and proceeded after them. 
Coburn shot a buffalo on the bank. The dogs 
jumped out of the canoe and ran the buffalo down 
the river and stopped opposite to me, but I still kept 
down the river, and left Coburn to kill him, which he 
did. He was a very large bull. We landed at the 
mouth of the West fork where we barbecued bear 
meat &c. and then proceeded down said river. 
About a mile below the mouth of Spring creek we saw 
a deer standing near the river. Coburn landed to 
shoot it, when about half up the bank, we heard a 
gun up Spring creek. Says Coburn, "Shall I shoot?" 
at that time the deer ran. We heard dogs bark and 
then thought it a white man, tho' wiih some doubts. 
We started and got near where we thought the gun 
was fired and hallooed, and the man answered and 
we went to him. He had killed a fine bear. He 
thought when he heard us (or I suppose he would have 
broke ground) that it was his two companions who 
had left him 26 days past for Neals station. He had 
been camped about three miles below Spring Creek, 
had killed and jerked some buffaloes. We took his 
bear and carried it or a part of it to our canoe and 
started again. Before we got to his camp we found 
a fine canoe lodged on the side of the bank, which 
w^e launched and took with us, 

While there launching the canoe Coburn shot a 
large otter the skin of which we afterwards sold for 
four or five dollars. We stayed at his camp that night 
consulting whether to go up the river again to the 
mouth of the West fork to hunt. But Coburn having 
a family was opposed to returning and having so 
many dreams, I suppose having once dreamed true 
thought he had done so again. So we gave it up. 
I am not aware that these hunting trips will be 



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interesting to you. I write them merely to show how 
venturesome people were in those days. 

Yours &c. 

Wm. Haymond. 



NO. 5. 



Palatine Hill, Va., Apl. 10, 1842. 
Luther Haymond, 

Sir: In my last letter I think I stated that our 
trip on Kanawha was in 1791. I am not certain 
whether it was in that year or 1792, not important. 
In my last letter we were as far as Shepherd's Camp. 
Shepherd was the name of the man we found in the 
woods — the next morning after we got to his camp 
we loaded his meat in our canoe, that is the one we 
found. We left our first made canoe and descended 
the the river, had not gone far before we met two 
men going up the river to hunt, each in a separate 
canoe. Shepherd went back with them and Coburn 
and myself proceeded down the river having first 
exchanged our big canoe with one of them for a less 
one. We landed at Neal's station safe with our load. 
Stayed there a day or two and then proceeded up the 
Ohio to Marietta. The river was very high and we 
had a hard days work to get up, not being in the habit 
of working. At Marietta we sold our skins. Bear 
meat &c. After staying seveial days at Mr. Williams 
we started home. When about six miles we met 
Isaac Richards with about 15 or 20 men going to 
be stationed at Williams and Neals stations. 

Coburn would turn back with them to Williams. 
This I was opposed to but yielded, back we went, 
stayed three or four da3^s and then started again. 
By this time our company had increased to 10 or 12 
among whom was a Frenchman who could not under- 
stand English. He was not able to keep up and 



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Richards hired him his horse to ride to Clarksburg 
where we arrived safe, sometime about the first of 
April having been gone 40 days or upwards, during 
which time we had never changed our clothes. We 
might have made considerable if we had been indus- 
trious. We, I believe, sold our Beaver skins for two 
dollars a pound and the bear meat for six pence a 
pound. What would you think now, to see two such 
persons as we were? 

In May following the Indians stole some horses on 
the West Fork of the Monongahela River and took 
two or three prisoners. They were followed to near 
the Kanawha River. Our men discovered them at 
night went back and laid until near da3^ when they 
crept up to the fire but the Indians were gone. They 
pursued them until the}^ got to the river, a part of the 
Indians had crossed, the others h^d taken down the 
river, or otherwise the Indians that had crossed the 
river left the horses over on the west side of said river, 
being too closely pursued and took the prisoners off. 
Our men then went up the river to a ford crossed over 
and got the horses. On their return up to the ford to 
recross they saw that same Shepherd and his 
companion Daniel Rowell descending the river with 
our canoe before mentioned and a hollow Sycamore 
made so that it would carry a load. They thought 
at first sight that it was the Indians crossing the river 
and Shepherd and Rowell thought the others were 
Indians. However they soon found out the mistake. 
Shepherd and Rowell proceeded down the river and 
had not gone far when the}' saw the raft of the 
Indians floating from the shore, they having just 
crossed. 

The same year or about that time the said Rowell 
and two other young men one of whom was a Neal, 
were up said river near the mouth of the West Fork. 
Rowell was setting in the canoe ferr\nng the others 
over the river, the two young men were standing up 



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when the Indians fired on them and killed the two 
young men who fell out of the canoe. Rowell swam 
ashore, ran to the camp and got his gun without a 
lock, he had taken it off to grease. He then made 
for Neals station. On his wa}'^ he hid his gun and 
never was able to find it again. The men stationed 
at Neals ascended the River (Kanawha), found the 
men and brried them. The Indians had not found 
them as they were not scalped. 

About this time the spies at Neals station saw the 
trail of Indians who had been on the West Fork of 
Monongahela and stole perhaps 8 or lo horses. They 
had crossed the Kanawha some 25 or 30 miles above 
its mouth. The men at the station got in canoes, 
went down the Ohio until they struck the trail where 
they had crossed. The}' followed and overtook the 
Indians retook the horses and brought them back to 
the station, made a sale and divided the proceeds. 
This is the first and last case that I have any 
knowledge of that the men of this country kept the 
property taken from the Indians that had been stolen 
by them. (See the Border Warfare.) 

In the year 1791 the Indians killed James or John 
Mclntire and wife a mile or two above the mouth of 
Bingamon Creek. Five or six of us when we heard 
the news started and went to Benj. Robinson's. 
Robinson had appointed before we got to his house 
to meet some men on Buffalo Creek. We started 
eleven of us in all, went up Tenmile Creek to the 
mouth of Jones Run and in going up said run we 
found the trail of the Indians, but as Robinson had 
promised to meet those men we went on to Buffalo 
creek, but found no persons. We took up Buffalo to 
the head of Fishing Creek went down a considerable 
distance, took up a right hand branch on which we 
camped. Next morning crossed over the dividing 
ridge, fell on the waters of Middle Island, went down 
the same, to the creek about a mile below the 



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three forks. The Indians had just come down the 
creek. Here was a fresh trail. Col. George Jackson 
proposed that six men should be chosen who should 
strip as light as they could and go ahead of the 
horses. He also asked the privilege of choosing them 
and going ahead which was granted. I then thought, 
chosen or not, I would be one of them. George 
Jackson, Benj. Robinson, Christopher Carpenter, 
John Haymond, John Harbert, and myself the 6th one, 
were the number. We stripped ourselves as light as 
we could, tied handkerchiefs around our heads and 
proceeded as fast as we could. The Indians 
appeared to travel ver}' carelessl3^ broke bushes &c. 
It was in May. The weeds were 3'oung and tender. 
We could follow a man ver}^ easily. We went about 
7 or 8 miles, passed where the Indians had stopped to 
eat. Arriving on a high bank, Jackson turned 
around and said ' 'where do 3^ou think they have gone, " 
with that he jumped down the bank and we proceeded 
down on the beach a short distance, when one of the 
Indians fired. I think we were about 40 yards from 
them, we on the beach, they on the bank on the same 
side of the creek. We started on a run and had run 
10 or 15 yards when the other three fired, then we 
were in about 30 yards of them. At the first gun 
Jackson wheeled around and said "where did that 
gun come from?" John Harbert and brother John 
discovered them first running up the hill, they fired. 
Benj. Robinson and m.yself ran and jumped on the 
bank where the Indians left their knapsacks. I fired 
the third shot, the Indians were 60 yards off. They 
had run up a very steep hill. Robinson shot at the 
same Indian that I did. I heard him or one of them 
talk after I shot. Jackson and Carpenter shot last. 
We then ran a little to the right from where the 
Indians had ran up the hill. I was the first on top 
with the compan}^ I was with (The other men had 



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joined us and two or three went round the hill in 
another place.) 

We then turned down to where the Indians had 
got on the top of the hill, there we found a blanket, 
belt, knife scabbard, and blood. The Indian had 
bled considerable, he went about a quarter of a mile 
and cut a stick which we supposed was to stop the 
blood. We followed him about a mile when we then 
thought it dangerous to follow thinking hejiad his gun 
with him, and would hide and kill one of us. To my 
mortification we returned. We could have trailed 
him anywhere. On our return we found his shot 
pouch. Had we found it at first I think we would 
have overtaken him. About ten years afterwards his 
gun was found. After we fired I wanted to run down 
the creek as I could see that a run came in just below 
but the rest would not. If we had I have no doubt 
but we would have met them again as the wounded 
Indian crossed the point and run not very far from its 
mouth. The other Indians we did not follow, but I 
think they crossed below where the wounded one did. 
We returned to the Indian's place of attack where we 
found all their knapsacks, one shot pouch (having 
previously found one) four hatchets and all their 
plunder including the woman's scalp. Here on 
examination we found that brother John had been 
shot through the handkerchief just above his ear, and 
Jackson through the shirt sleeve near his wrist. Had 
we looked we would have found the Indian's gun. 
We ought to have expected that the Indian would 
throw away his gun before his shot pouch. I have 
since heard that one of tne Cunninghams who was a 
prisoner with the Indians at that time, on his return 
said that an Indian came home and said that he had 
been with three others on Muddy River (West Fork), 
killed a man and woman, and they were followed, and 
they fired on the whitemen and killed two, and that 
the whiteman fired on them and wounded three, one 



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of whom died after crossing the second ridge at a run 
(we were on the second ridge and near the second run). 
The other two died between that and the Ohio River. 
If this account is true and the Indians we followed 
were the same, we must have shot well. We thought 
at the time we had wounded two. We sold our 
Indian plunder for about twenty dollars among which 
were some curious affairs. Yours &c. 

Wm. Raymond. 



No. 6. 



Palatine Hill, Va. 13th. April 1842. 
Luther Haymond, 

Sir: I think in the year 1791 my father bought 
the land where brother Cyrus now lives in all about 
200 acres for about 100 pounds. 

In the fall, I think in October, we moved to it. On 
the road I cannot say how many gangs of turkeys we 
passed. I killed several on the way. Shortly I believe 
after we moved the Indians burnt Mr. Thompson's 
house on Lost Creek and killed his cow. The night 
following I was with several others at said house while 
it was burning. We stayed all night at the fire. The 
next morning we crossed the creek and took the ridge 
at Hackers Creek, We could not find the trail as it 
was too much in the settlement. We went to Hughes 
Run and Hackers Creek, where we were at one or 
two houses burning, that had been fired by the Indi- 
ans. We then returned home by way of Rooting 
Creek. On the night after our return Sims house 
was burned. Next day I was at it. We took a cir- 
cle round, but not far enough or we would have found 
the trail, as they were afterwards followed to near 
Buckhannon by another party. The Indians had stolen 
some horses, I believe at Sims cabin, and some at 
Buckhannon, from which place they steered their course 
to the Little Kanawha. Some of our men waylaid 



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them on the Little Kanawha, a day or two but got 
out of patience and went in search of them. I have 
understood they were gone but a little while, when 
the Indians passed the place where our men had laid 
in ambush for them. It seems to me that our men 
were on one side of the river and the Indians on the 
other. However be that as it may, the Indians effected 
their escape down the river. 

As we were on a new farm we turned our attention 
to work that fall and spring (except hunting time when 
I followed the woods) 

Next spring we planted a good crop. I worked on 
until June 1792 when the Indians being very trouble- 
some Watson Clark and myself were appointed to go 
and be stationed at Williams Station, opposite Mari- 
etta. On the 22nd. day of said month we left Clarks- 
burg with a horse to take for some person at the 
mouth of the little Kanawha. The first night we 
staid at Salem. There were I think 8 or 10 men 
stationed there. Next day we proceeded on 
and arrived safe on Sunday. We were directed by 
Col. Lowther who had command of the spies and 
military to go up the river to the mouth of Middle 
Island Creek, four days out and two in. 

While we were there Mr. Moses Hunt who lived at 
Neals Station, a mile up Kanawha from its mouth, 
went out to hunt his horse. He met with three Indians, 
who I understood laid down their guns, and caught 
him by running. He said on their way to the Indian 
towns, that they would almost starve, and when they 
killed a deer they would eat like dogs. On their 
way they found a bee tree. One of them stripped 
climbed the tree, cut a hole, and took out the honey. 
Having traveled by one or more of their towns they 
got out of provisions, stretched Hunt on the ground, 
tied a pole across him, and all three turned out to 
hunt. Hunt got loose and returned home. I saw 



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him on his way. He was eleven days living on birds, 
roots &c. 

Watson Clark and myself continued spying until 
the middle of August when he returned home, and 
Allison Clark took his place. We had to go up the 
river and back, anyway we thought proper. Dur- 
ing the summer the weeds were so thick that we 
killed but few deer, and by the by it was rather 
dangerous to be shooting, but when we saw a deer we 
could not resist the temptation to shoot it. In the 
fall we killed a considerable number of them, one day 
six. They were plenty out in the hills. 

One morning we heard two guns fired a mile or two 
from us, we concluded it was Indians, and steered for 
the place, when we got to or near, where we thought 
they had fired we placed ourselves by trees and 
howled like a wolf. We were answered by a man in 
the same manner. I continued howling, and so did 
he, he still coming nearer. In this situation I had 
to turn around and look in every direction, as I 
thought if his companions heard us, they would know 
that the third person or persons must be near. When 
he was about 120 yards from us he hallooed and 
called his companion by name, and I knew his 
voice. They had been up the river perhaps to 
Wheeling, and had landed their canoe there over 
night, and in the morning turned out hunting. If 
you will consider yourself behind a tree and hear- 
ing an Indian howl, and expect to see one or more 
every minute, you may judge of my feelings at that 
time. I will only say it was the most trying time of 
my life. We were fifteen miles up the river from 
our station. 

One other time, I heard a gun near us, and in the 
fall the woods I saw burning appeared just to have 
been set on fire near where we had passed. By 
whom the gun was shot or the woods fired, I never 
could learn. If any Indians crossed the river during 



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our stay we had no knowledge of it, except in the two 
cases mentioned and they may have proceeded from 
white men stroUing in the woods, but I was induced 
to beheve that the woods were fired by the Indians. 
We returned home safe in December. 

Yours &c. 

Wm. Haymond. 



No. 7. 

Palatine Hill, Va., 4th May 1842. 

Luther Haymond, 

Dear Sir: — I will give you an account of the Indians 
killing N. Carpenter as well as I recollect it (I think 
in a former letter I stated to you that Nicholas 
Carpenter was with us the time we overtook the 
Indians on Middle Island, if so it was a mistake for 
it was his brother Christopher, who was with us, we 
used to call him Stuffle Carpenter). This was in the 
year 1790 or 1791, Marietta being newly settled. 
Carpenter had collected a lot of cattle to drive there. 
I saw him in Clarksburg, the day or the day before 
he started, and I was on the eve of going with him, 
but did not. He went on with his son about twelve 
years of age, Jesse Hughes and two or three other 
men. A company of Indians came near Neal's 
Station on the Little Kanawha, caught a negro boy, 
brought him with them to where they struck the road 
leading from Clarksburg to Marietta, I presume some 
place on Hughes river, or its waters. Carpenter and 
his company had passed the same day. The Indians 
danced and cut many fine capers when they saw the 
trail, and started on after Carpenter. He had 
camped about six miles this side of Marietta when 
the Indians got in hearing of the bells. They took the 
negro boy in the woods and tied him and proceeded 
to the attack. It was between daybreak and sunrise. 
One man was up sitting by the fire. They fired, a 



part at least ran towards the fire, the men raised and 
ran. Hughes took up two guns. The Indians fol- 
lowed him shot two holes through his hunting shirt. 
He was compelled to throw down one gun, and would 
tree and present his gun, then the Indians would 
tree, he at last got on top of the hill where he 
hallooed and cleared himself. He said he heard the 
Tomahawk struck into Carpenter's son's head. 
Carpenter got into a hole of water but was dis- 
covered taken and tomahawked. One man was 
taken prisoner, and one made his escape after being 
shot through the hand, making two with Jesse 
Hughes who escaped. I believe Carpenter, his son 
and one other man were killed. During the conflict 
the negro boy got loose and escaped to the settle- 
ment. The Indians took the horses and went up the 
Ohio some place not far from the mouth of Bull 
Creek. I believe the horses were retaken from them 
by a Company of men going up the river. The 
horses were restored to Carpenter's heirs. I saw 
Jesse Hughes on his return to Clarksburg and the 
holes in his hunting shirt. The negro boy gave the 
account of their following on the trail of Carpenter. 

In 1793 I was again appointed spy under Levi 
Morgan. We stayed at Salem most of the winter 
without the company of our Lieutenant Morgan. 
The last of February we concluded to take a scout. 
John Cain, Samuel Jackson and myself started with 
an intention of going on the south Fork of Hughes 
River. We went on Middle Island Creek or rather 
a branch of it, where the first night we lodged in a 
camp. Here we were detained two or three days by 
the rain, when it cleared up we proceeded. On a 
branch of said creek we found four horses, which had 
been in the woods all winter. We caught them and 
sent Jackson to the settlement with them. Cain and 
myself then changed our course and fell on the head 
of Finks Fork of leading Creek. The hills bound 



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so close to the Creek that we were often compelled to 
wade it, and in doing so had sometimes to hold up 
our shot pouches. Finally we camped. The next 
morning crossed the ridge and fell on Leading Creek 
and returned home. Jackson proceeded on and the 
first house he got to was Henry or William Runyan's, 
where he sta3^ed that night. A company of Indians 
came I presume to where we left Jackson, perhaps 
the same da}^ or a day or two after, followed him to 
Runyan's and stole from him six horses. A company 
of men followed them. The Indians had considera- 
ble start. Our men took the road to Marietta, got in 
canoes and went down the river, until they came to 
where the Indians had crossed, took the trail followed 
30 or 40 miles, came up to them, where they had 
camped. There were but two Indians. The whites 
fired, killed one Indian and wounded the other and 
retook four horses. It was thought that two Indians 
had the previous night went on with the other horses 
perhaps to a hunting camp. Brother John Raymond 
was with this company. I was sorry that I was out 
of the way and had not an opportunity to be with 
them. Respectfully, 

Wm. Raymond. 



NO. 8. 



Palatine Hill, Va. loth June 1842. 
Mr. Luther Raymond. 

Sir: I wrote a letter sometime ago to Levi Morgan 
enquiring whether he knew anything of my father 
during the Revolutionary War. I have not received 
any answer from him yet. If he writes I will send 
it to you. 

I see by the enclosed paper that said Morgan was 
married by my father. This had entirely escaped 
my memory until I saw the within. In those days 
there were but few preachers and the Justices of the 



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Peace married. My father among the rest, he being 
a Justice. 

My last letter to you brought up the sketch of the 
early times to 1793. My father had taken up 1000 
acres before mentioned adjoining the tract of 400 
acres before mentioned. A part of said land he sold 
to Alex. McClelland. I presume you have heard of 
a wild goose chase my brother John took. He was a 
Senator from the Harrison District. While there or 
on his wa3^ he bought about 2000 dollars worth of 
goods, started a store, stayed about 20 months from 
home. He went to Washington City where he met 
said McClelland, who furnished him with a horse and 
money to bring him home. This cost was paid by 
my father out of the proceeds of this land, and your 
uncle John came home with little but the BuUtown 
land, where he shortly went. About this time my 
father bought the land where Palatine now is about 
137 acres. He also about the same time sold the 
tract in the Monongahela Glades where he first settled 
about 20 years previous. As I have heretofore told 
you that tract contained 400 acres, he sold it for one 
dollar per acre. I was by said land 20 years ago, I 
believe no person lived on it then and I do not know 
that any person lives on it yet. I suppose it would 
not bring more now. A part of that money paid for 
a part of the Palatine tract, which was bought for 
140 dollars and is now worth 50 dollars per acre. 

In the year 1793 Jacob Polsley who married your 
Aunt Margaret, moved on the Palatine tract. In 
1794 I moved where I now live. I have gone so far. 
I do not think of anything further worth wiiting. 
My father died in 1821. Edward Jackson was then 
in Congress and John G. Jackson wrote a piece on 
his death, and sent it to his brother at Washington. 
It was published in the Intelligencer. I would like 
to send it to you if I could find the paper, but I have 
not preserved it. My father if I know anything of 



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his temper, think it was good, tho' when raised, not. 
He was a very indulgent parent and I think he was 
as much of a RepubHcan as I ever knew. He cared 
but Httle for riches, but always tried I think to do 
what was right between man and man. 

While we were living below Morgantown, as I do 
not see it in the Border Warfare, I will give you an 
account of Col. Scott who lived on the west side of 
the river two miles from us, he had two of his daugh- 
ters killed. This is recorded in the Border Warfare. 
Not long after this his son James, who now lives near 
Morgantown, was riding alone near his father's, the 
Indians shot at him and shot through his hat, and cut 
the skin on the back of his head. He rode off and 
cleared himself. Brother John and a man by the 
name of Lough with some others followed the Indians, 
probably on Indian Creek above Morgantown, lost 
the trail. The}^ returned home except Lough or Low, 
who went further in search of a horse he had lost. 
Sometime after; while on his horse he saw an Indian 
on horseback riding toward him. He raised his gun 
and presented it, another Indian shot at him and 
passed a ball through his arm, between the wrist and 
elbow, and through the arm between the elbow and 
shoulder and into the side. The bullet lodged in the 
skin back of the side making five holes. Lough 
dropped his gun wheeled his horse and got safe home 
with the loss of a considers ble quantity of blood. 

He recovered. One of the Indians followed him 
perhaps, two or three miles as was afterward discov- 
ered. Very respectfully, 

Wm. Haymond. 



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